# Leopard and Rails, best way?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/leopard-and-rails-best-way/126269>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 16, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/leopard-and-rails-best-way/126269 "2008-01-16T21:46:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![ss\_1982](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@ss\_1982](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ss_1982)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/leopard-and-rails-best-way/126269/1 "2008-01-16T21:46:56Z")

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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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**Author:** ![ss\_1982](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@ss\_1982](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ss_1982)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 9:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/leopard-and-rails-best-way/126269/2 "2008-01-16T21:52:17Z")

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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](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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**Author:** ![ss\_1982](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@ss\_1982](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ss_1982)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2008, 10:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/leopard-and-rails-best-way/126269/3 "2008-01-16T22:48:20Z")

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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/](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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**Author:** ![ss\_1982](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@ss\_1982](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ss_1982)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/leopard-and-rails-best-way/126269/4 "2008-01-17T18:40:54Z")

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

[http://ruby.macosforge.org/](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. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)

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**Author:** ![ss\_1982](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/96bed5/32.png) [@ss\_1982](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ss_1982)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/leopard-and-rails-best-way/126269/5 "2008-01-20T00:56:42Z")

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Thanks for the links, will have a read.

Scott