From: Joshua Ballanco <jballanc@...>
Date: 2007-06-08T00:31:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails on a Mac, so strange (to me) behavior

Tony Thomas wrote:
> I've run into problems installing on OS X from source too. I found it
> much easier to install MAMP and Locomotive.
> 
> http://locomotive.raaum.org/
> http://www.mamp.info/en/home/

Yeah, I'll throw my hat in with that suggestion. In fact, for the 
current Rails app I'm developing, I've got a flash drive with 
locomotive, textmate (http://macromates.com/), css edit 
(http://macrabbit.com/cssedit/), and my rails directory on it. If you 
change your dev environment to use SQLite3 then you can run (and 
showcase!) your app from any mac (honestly, I don't know why anyone 
would go to the trouble of setting up a full blown MySQL DB just for 
development...testing and deployment I can understand, but for dev 
sqlite3 is just so attractive).

Really, I can't say enough about this solution! In fact, if you throw 
one of the all-in-one rail packages for Widows or Linux on there, then 
you can develop anywhere.

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