Locomotive: Ruby on Rails on Mac

I personally think Locomotive is great, and it makes it really easy to get started with Ruby and Ruby on Rails. If you are interested in either, I'd recommend you check it out.

Ruby comes with OS X, but it's an older version. If you want to install the newest version, and you don't want to use something like Locomotive, then you have to do it manually.

It isn't that hard to install. I was helping someone a while back, and I decided to make a screencast that shows all the steps. It's not only useful for installing Ruby, but for installing any command line application. I would have liked such a screencast when I first setup everything, so I hope it helps some people.

http://www.infinitered.com/blog/?p=6

This is the best way to hit the ground running.

The developer put a good bit of thought into how it's partitioned (via bundles). If you want to test how a particular change is going to affect you, you just duplicate the bundle and run the update/change within that bundle.

Most people write Locomotive off because they don't know that it's very easy to update Ruby, Rails, plugins, etc.

I've gone down the standard stack install path once but for me it's Locomotive all the way.

I got RoR installed the Manual way, although it's not that hard, this is definitely a very useful app even after Leopard is released -- one can run it on older Macs, and it may have more up to date version than the ones in Leopard too.

rails is really over hyped !!!
a framework like django is less known but more powerful.

my 2 cents opinion

Rails and Ruby Gems are included in the Leopard, so apart from a database (MySQL and SQLite are easy enough to install) you'll be good to go. Nice to see someone offering something in the meantime.