# Locomotive + RadRails Installation help

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/locomotive-radrails-installation-help/89818>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 22, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/locomotive-radrails-installation-help/89818 "2007-03-22T23:20:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/locomotive-radrails-installation-help/89818/1 "2007-03-22T23:20:54Z")

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Hi guys,  
Im having trouble getting RadRails and Locomotive to hook up! (Im  
obviously on OSX hence Locomotive)

Ive tried setting locomotive.app as a interpreter, but it doesnt seem  
to accept it? Im defently having some problems getting it to work.

Thanks guys.

-Mike  
mike [at] armyvisual [dot] com

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**Author:** ![mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 12:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/locomotive-radrails-installation-help/89818/2 "2007-03-23T00:02:26Z")

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If you want to make it work you can. It’s kind of a hack.

Fire up Locomotive and right click on your app and select open in  
terminal. You will see that it executes a temporary script to set up  
your environment.

If you copy that scripts contents to your $HOME/.profile it will be  
available to you in your entire login account (including radrails)

You’ll be a lot better off if you install rails and rubygems from  
source. It’s not that hard and there are several popular how-to’s out  
there. It takes about 10 minutes.

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**Author:** ![mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@mike](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/mike)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2007, 12:44am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/locomotive-radrails-installation-help/89818/3 "2007-03-23T00:44:34Z")

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On Mar 22, 6:20 pm, Mike [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> Hi guys,  
> Im having trouble getting RadRails and Locomotive to hook up! (Im  
> obviously on OSX hence Locomotive)
> 
> Ive tried setting locomotive.app as a interpreter, but it doesnt seem  
> to accept it? Im defently having some problems getting it to work.

I’ve been told that if you open a Terminal for your application from  
within Locomotive and then start RadRails from the command line, i.e.

open /path/to/RadRails.app

then things work.

-r