Recommended install method on OSX?

rubyonrails-talk
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So what is the recommended Rails install method on OSX?

seems surprisingly convoluted (and maybe even out of date?), given that it usually seems like most Rails developers are on Macs. (Disclaimer: I myself develop on Ubuntu, where the install was trivial, but I need to assist another developer in setting up a dev environment on OSX.) The Apple page [1] pointed to by the rails wiki suggests Locomotive [2], which doesn’t exist anymore at that web site. Or perhaps [3], which is pointed to by the Apple page as well? But that page is from 2005, and has you compiling almost everything from source…

How about the Bitnami ruby stack [4] ? The instructions /seem/ straightforward… but…

Help? Thanks…

dwh

[1] [2] [3] [4]

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Are you finding something missing?

On Mac OS X Leopard, you start with Ruby 1.8.6 and Rails 1.2.3 (and rubygems 0.9.4) [1,2] (You could install the OS X 10.5.4 update, too)

From there, it should be as easy as (from the top of my head):

sudo gem update --system # to get many improvements to rubygems

sudo gem install rails

and start coding!

-Rob

Rob Biedenharn http://agileconsultingllc.com

Rob@AgileConsultingLLC.com

[1] http://www.apple.com/opensource/

[2] http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/

(under What's in the Box? / Development)
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Denis,

Hivelogic was the right location, but you had the wrong articles.

Rails stack installation on Mac OSX Leopard :    Dan Benjamin

RMagick installation :    Dan Benjamin

Alain