# Rails running on new MacIntels?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-running-on-new-macintels/78591>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 8, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-running-on-new-macintels/78591 "2006-03-08T19:22:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 7:22pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-running-on-new-macintels/78591/1 "2006-03-08T19:22:39Z")

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Has anybody got Rails running on one of the new Intel based Macs? I’d  
love to get a MacBook Pro but if I can’t run Rails and MySQL then  
there’s no real point.

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**Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-running-on-new-macintels/78591/2 "2006-03-08T19:26:15Z")

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Ruth O’Hare wrote:

> Has anybody got Rails running on one of the new Intel based Macs? I’d  
> love to get a MacBook Pro but if I can’t run Rails and MySQL then  
> there’s no real point.

I’ve been running Rails with MySQL on an Intel iMac for the last few  
weeks. Works like a charm, setup isn’t any more of hassle than on a  
PowerPC machine.

One thing I did was download and compile everything myself I wasn’t sure  
if any of the ‘prefab’ rails installers were sufficient.

Probably took me an evening to get my app up and running.

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**Author:** ![firebird](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/2acd7d/32.png) [@firebird](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/firebird)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-running-on-new-macintels/78591/3 "2006-03-08T19:36:38Z")

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On Mar 8, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Ruth O’Hare wrote:

> Has anybody got Rails running on one of the new Intel based Macs? I’d  
> love to get a MacBook Pro but if I can’t run Rails and MySQL then  
> there’s no real point.

Running Edge on my MacBook Pro with Ruby 1.8.4 and MySQL, RMagick,  
etc. all just fine. Hums right along.

-S

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**Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 9:17pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-running-on-new-macintels/78591/4 "2006-03-08T21:17:44Z")

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On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 07:22:39PM +0100, Ruth O’Hare wrote:

> Has anybody got Rails running on one of the new Intel based Macs? I’d  
> love to get a MacBook Pro but if I can’t run Rails and MySQL then  
> there’s no real point.

Darwin has been running on Intels for over four years. Also, Ruby has  
been part of the base Mac OS X since 10.3 at least. I would be very  
surprised if Rails failed to work on the Intel-based Macs.

Steve P.  
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid

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**Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-running-on-new-macintels/78591/5 "2006-03-08T22:21:12Z")

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Kevin E. wrote:

> Ruth O’Hare wrote:
> 
> > Has anybody got Rails running on one of the new Intel based Macs? I’d  
> > love to get a MacBook Pro but if I can’t run Rails and MySQL then  
> > there’s no real point.
> 
> I’ve been running Rails with MySQL on an Intel iMac for the last few  
> weeks. Works like a charm, setup isn’t any more of hassle than on a  
> PowerPC machine.
> 
> One thing I did was download and compile everything myself I wasn’t sure  
> if any of the ‘prefab’ rails installers were sufficient.
> 
> Probably took me an evening to get my app up and running.

Excellent!  
Thanks 🙂