Building Ruby, Rails, Subversion, Mongrel, and MySQL on Leopard
One of the major reasons I’m waiting to buy Leopard is that I have Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Subversion, Mongrel and a bunch of random gems needed to run Only Human and other apps I design for. Installing these things was a pita and having them fail on me so that I can have glossier windows is not an option.
So I’ve been doing some research and biding my time, while all my design friends im me with how awesome the new Leopard is. I feel my geek credibility slipping by the day.
Thankfully, after a couple of days I noticed Hive Logic posted a blog entry about updating his trusty install guide for Leopard. Needless to say i’m going to buy Leopard as soon as this article is published.
November 3rd, 2007 at 11:26 pm
FYI: Ruby 1.8.6, Rails, Mongrel, Ruby Gems, and Subversion come pre-installed with Leopard. MySQL is the only thing you would need to install youself, and it takes all of 2 minutes with the standard MySQL installer.
November 3rd, 2007 at 11:55 pm
Thanks. I’m always cautious with these things.