Leopard and Rails, best way?

Rails
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Hi,

I’m finally moving over from developing on windows to leopard, I have
read a few articles detailing ways of using the pre-installed version,
Locomotive or MacPorts.

Has anyone got any suggestions on what is the best path to take?

Thanks
Scott

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this was answered several times in the last months.
one answer is here:
http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/136441#new

for the others the search function with “leopard install” should give
you some help

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Ruby, apache, rails, gems, even SQLite 3 are all installed on OS X
leopard by default.

http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/Current/ has a installer
for MySQL too if you want.

The apache config file is in /etc/apache2/ and they even have a few
things setup for you already like some example vhosts if your not to
familiar with apache config files.

the darwin source site has a mod_php tar which has php 5 setup for
Leopards config.

The nice part about using those over say, MacPorts is that they are all
configured to be universal binaries so you can run them on a 64 bit
system or a 32 bit and they will take full advantage of your processor.

I prefer compiling all my stuff from scratch and setting my own config
values, but thats just me.

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Also, here is a nice place to keep up with everything Ruby on Mac OS
X:

http://ruby.macosforge.org/

Dig around in there and find the troubleshooting guild for some good
tips. I think it’s linked from and early “Welcome” posting on that
page.

On Jan 16, 4:48 pm, John H. [email protected]

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Thanks for the links, will have a read.

Scott