# Newbie -How to install RoR on xampp for osx(leopard)

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 26, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-how-to-install-ror-on-xampp-for-osx-leopard/146878 "2008-08-26T13:10:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![nkraf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/41988e/32.png) [@nkraf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nkraf)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-how-to-install-ror-on-xampp-for-osx-leopard/146878/1 "2008-08-26T13:10:57Z")

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Hi all,  
im a newbie on RoR framework, im working with mac OSX 10.5 (leopard)  
im developing joomla! CMS with xampp in my local machine

i have a some questions pertaining to RoR

1. how do i install RoR in xampp?
2. i understand osx 10.5 come with latest ruby ver. 1.8.6  
how do this work in xampp environment? do i have install RoR again in  
xampp?

any help will be much appreciated

thank you

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**Author:** ![nkraf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/41988e/32.png) [@nkraf](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/nkraf)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/newbie-how-to-install-ror-on-xampp-for-osx-leopard/146878/2 "2008-08-26T16:33:04Z")

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On Aug 26, 6:10 am, Swai Ho [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> any help will be much appreciated
> 
> ## thank you
> 
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I’d skip the whole Xampp part… Leopard comes with Rails and Apache  
already, though you’ll need to update Rails.  
You should only need to do:

sudo gem update --system  
sudo gem update rails

Turn on Websharing and you should be good to go.  
the Rails wiki shows how to use Xampp’s MySQL socket  
[http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/XAMPP+integration](http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/XAMPP+integration)

Hope that helps

John