So I just discovered that Leopard comes with a version of Ruby on Rails (RoR) pre-installed. The only problem is its a bit dated but there is a command-line one-liner to update it all no sweat with RubyGem (the Ruby package manager):
Might need to update your RubyGem first (I love systems that keep themselves up-to-date!!)…
sudo gem update --system
… then update Rails…
sudo gem install rails
Then to get going, get back to the command-line and create the project somewhere with mysql support:
rails -d mysql ~/Sites/myNewApp
And it should generate the basic RoR site layout. To test it, run the build in web server:
cd ~/Sites/myNewApp
ruby script/server
And then point your favourite web browser at http://127.0.0.1:3000/ and your away!
I’ve just started to learn Pythons answer to the MVC framework race: Django, but I’m lazy and when I came across this info this morning and how easy it was to get RoR up and running on Leopard I was suckered in. I guess I’ll learn both and compare the two at some point.
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