Ruby on Rails on OS X
There are a number of ways to make sure that you’ve what you need to start Ruby on Rails development on OS X. The easiest way is buy a copy of TextMate and install Locomotive (this is all in one Ruby, Rails, Web server bundle). ActiveState sells a full blown IDE (Komodo) with proper debugging support for Ruby. But you need to make sure that you installed rails, … before you can use it.
The 1st application I tried was file upload. Looks like Locomotive’s rails does not understand form_tag_with_upload_progress and this specific feature will require the latest ruby/rails. So now I’ll have to figure out how to update Ruby/Rails on the Mac. FinkCommander here I come.
May 28, 2007 at 4:56 pm
While fink/finkCommander offers binary (and source) package(s) for ruby itself, I see no mention of rails/rake/etc. I think I stick to MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/).
July 19, 2007 at 8:34 pm
TextMate is the way to create ROR applications on OS X. It is a superb productively tool (not quite as good as eclipse, however).