October 2008
Beginner to intermediate
224 pages
5h 34m
English
Content preview from Rails: Up and Running, 2nd Edition
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OS X
The easiest way to get started on OS X is to use Locomotive (see Figure A-2), which is very similar to Instant Rails on Windows, except that it uses the Lighttpd for the web server (instead of Apache) and SQLite for the database (instead of MySQL). For more details about Locomotive, go to its home page at http://locomotive.raaum.org.
Figure A-2. Locomotive
Download Locomotive from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=146941 (you can also download the “Bundle” version that contains extra libraries, like Rmagick).
Simply drag-and-drop the file you just downloaded to your Applications folder.
To start Locomotive, double-click Locomotive.app.
That’s all there is to it!
TextMate and RadRails
The commercial text-editor-on-steroids TextMate (see Figure A-3) is very popular with Rails developers on OS X. Locomotive provides some minimal built-in support for TextMate. You can right-click a Rails app in Locomotive and choose to open its directory in TextMate.
Figure A-3. TextMate
TextMate is inexpensive, but not free. You can find out more about TextMate here: http://macromates.com.
If you want more than a pumped-up text editor, you’ll be happy to know that the excellent RadRails IDE also runs on OS X. See the section “RadRails,” earlier in this chapter.
Once installed, you can configure ...
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