From: "James H." <james.herdman@...>
Date: 2006-09-07T12:50:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Installing ROR with Darwin Ports

Don't go this route.  It may seem easier, but you're cutting yourself
off at the knees on the learning experience.

Compiling and installing Ruby is NOT hard to do.  In fact, it's so easy
that there are fantastic tutorials on how to do it.  I highly recommend
this one as a fellow Mac user:
http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/12/01/ruby_rails_lighttpd_mysql_tiger

It's pretty straight forward.  Make sure you read his article on why
you should compile/install in /usr/local (see
http://hivelogic.com/articles/2005/11/29/using_usr_local).

Make sure you use Ruby 1.8.4.  Ruby 1.8.5 fixed a bug that was allowing
breakpointer to work.  You're going to use breakpointer a LOT in
developing in Rails.

Let me know if you get stuck.  I'll try my best to help.

James H.