Ruby on Rails on a Macbook

Rails
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Hi,

I want to run ror on a macbook. Do I need to update Ruby? Can someone
point me at some (reasonably easy!) guidelines to making a macbook Ruby
on Rails loaded?

Thanks in advance.

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On 10/26/06, cmcfarland [email protected] wrote:

I want to run ror on a macbook. Do I need to update Ruby? Can someone
point me at some (reasonably easy!) guidelines to making a macbook Ruby
on Rails loaded?

–
Greg D.
http://destiney.com/

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This provided all I needed to get started on my mac book:

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Hello,

I want to run ror on a macbook. Do I need to update Ruby? Can someone
point me at some (reasonably easy!) guidelines to making a macbook Ruby
on Rails loaded?

Read this :
http://blog.duncandavidson.com/2006/04/sandboxing_rail.html

-- Jean-François.

–
Ã? la renverse.

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http://locomotive.raaum.org/

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Thanks for the links. Locomotive looks interesting. Is there any reason
I shouldn’t just use it?

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cmcfarland wrote:

Thanks for the links. Locomotive looks interesting. Is there any reason
I shouldn’t just use it?

No.

Use it if want to develop but not deploy your application (but that’s a
macbook, not a server, you should not deploy your application on it, so
Locomotive is great).

If you want to deploy your Rails app on a Macintosh server, I suggest
you to use Darwinports, and on a Linux server use the package system
(emerge, apt-get, rpm, etc) to install ruby, then install rubygems then
use rubygems to install Rails, Mongrel, etc.

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I tried Locomotive and it really didn’t seem to work so well. Dont know
why? Then I installed, Ruby and Rails as per the instructions, then
console didn’t work. But then I installed it with Darwin Ports, now
lifes all good.

I’d recommend Ports for sure.

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Me too. Macports is great. And you can switch to
Mongrel/Lighty/Apache/nginx
whatever the next great thing is (and this seems to change frequently
with
rails) at your own pace.

Vish

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Weird. Locomotive is about as simple as you can get for Rails
development.

On 10/27/06, cammo [email protected] wrote:

–
Chris S.
[email protected]
http://compiledmonkey.wordpress.com

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I just came across an announcement that Darwin Ports is shutting down
[1]. I’m not sure what this means to those of us who have relied on
Darwin Ports over time (Fink?).

Anyone have any thoughts other than building each component
individually?

[1] http://opendarwin.org/

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On 10/28/06, s.ross [email protected] wrote:

I just came across an announcement that Darwin Ports is shutting down[1].
I’m not sure what this means to those of us who have relied on Darwin Ports
over time (Fink?).

Anyone have any thoughts other than building each component individually?

[1] http://opendarwin.org/

fear not, while the opendarwin project is closing down, darwinports[1]
is not - in early september, it moved to a new host[2] and was renamed
macports[3]. james duncan davidson’s invaluable article[4] was updated
to reflect the naming change, uses mongrel instead of lighty and
probably some other things as well.

cheers,
jean-pierre

[1] http://darwinports.org (now redirects to macports.org)
[2] http://macosforge.org
[3] http://macports.org
[4] http://blog.duncandavidson.com/2006/04/sandboxing_rail.html