OSX Leopard: Rails/Mongrel/Capistrano built in

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http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/300.html

"Ruby on Rails Work in a developer's dreamland. Leopard is the perfect platform for Ruby on Rails development, with Rails, Mongrel, and Capistrano built in."

--Wagner

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Nice. But I wonder what upgrading to Leopard will do to my self-installed Ruby and Rails (using the Hivelogic instructions). I've got the latest Ruby (1.8.6), Rails (1.2.5), and all my gems in /usr/local/... Anyone got any idea what versions are installed in Leopard? I'm thinking I'll just continue using my own setup...

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It is a good indicator, I think most of us will use our own setup nonetheless. In general you'll be fine as long as /usr/local/bin appears in PATH before /usr/bin.

-- fxn

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The current version of OS X has ruby in /usr/bin, I imagine Leopard will be the same.

Fred

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> Nice. But I wonder what upgrading to Leopard will do to my > self-installed Ruby and Rails (using the Hivelogic instructions). I've > got the latest Ruby (1.8.6), Rails (1.2.5), and all my gems in > /usr/local/... Anyone got any idea what versions are installed in > Leopard? I'm thinking I'll just continue using my own setup...

It is a good indicator, I think most of us will use our own setup nonetheless. In general you'll be fine as long as /usr/local/bin

Unless you installed with macports in which case the custom install is in /opt/local/bin

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Pretty much what I figured will happen.

Thanks.

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Word to the wise..

I have yet to be able to get FreeImage compiled on leopard.. actually I have compiled it with dreaded symbol not found errors, linking issue .. etc

So all of you with apps that use image_science maybe delayed a bit before you can get it working. The image_science gem will install, but will die if you attempt to use it.

Does not seem that the FreeImage project is all that active. I have tried contacting developers via the usual mailing lists and forums to no avail.

I'm not sure how much I can say about it other than that until Leopard is released and I don't have to worry about the NDA even though this is a FreeImage issue more so than leopard.

Any of the Image_science devs want to talk to me off list feel free.

Hopefully someone with better C++ skills than me will soon fix it.

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Hi Michael, if it’s anything concerning Leopard, then it falls under the NDA and you can only speak with Apple until the product is released. I have learned this from reading the posts in the cocoa-dev mail list where they have made this very clear to others that have posted similar information.

-Conrad

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A clean OS X doesn't have /usr/local/ and I believe this will remain in Leopard. So ruby on rails installed in /usr/local/ should be safe.

Damian

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Hi, I’m using Mac Ports and it allows me to easily update every part of the ruby/rails native installation. Also, I have access to many other ports outside of Rails.

Peace,

-Conrad

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Just an update - am at an Apple Tech update where they are publicly showing Leopard - Ruby is 1.8.6 and Rails is 1.2.3.

Nice to see they're fairly up to date.

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This is one reason I'm using Locomotive at the moment. Self-contained and doesn't really conflict with anything else as far as I can see.

Your reasons are your own I guess but you can very easily manipulate the PATH environment variable and install anything anywhere.

The Mac OS uses /usr and ports uses /opt/local. Most open source stuff has a default --prefix of /usr/local so it's really just a matter of putting /opt/local/bin ahead of /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin ahead of /opt/local/bin in the PATH.

I would think that it would be advantageous to at least *look* at what Leopard provides before you make this decision.

The reality is it will likely be out of date when it's released. Since you can't update Xcode from any sort of automated mechanism I doubt the Rails stuff will be much different. Ports are a good way to keep up to date but I prefer to install my main workflow stuff from source so I can control the exact versions.

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Just an update - am at an Apple Tech update where they are publicly showing Leopard - Ruby is 1.8.6 and Rails is 1.2.3.

But you would still need to install Xcode though? or not?

Elle

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I don't see how it can be avoided, especially if you plan to use any gems that require compilation.

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I don't think the machine I used had the dev tools installed, but didn't think to look. I'd guess that Ruby and Rails are installed - and as Greg said if you want to install any gems that require compiling, you'll need the tools installed. But that's not a big deal - the dev tools come with the OS.