Rails - Sep 2005 - Hi! & newbie question about RoR on Mac

Greetings - just joined the list. My name is Matt, I''m a 35 year old  
programmer looking to get into Ruby on Rails. I''ve been poking around  
with it for about a day or so on my Mac, trying out the various  
tutorials on the net. I''m having a problem with irb where if you  
start it with the auto-complete option enabled, it throws an  
exception and crashes - maybe it''s down to the version number; I have  
v1.8.1 of Ruby installed for some reason, though I''m told 1.8.2 is  
the default with MacOSX 1.4. I suspect the earlier 1.8.1 install may  
be part of the Ruby On Rails .pkg file I installed a couple of days  
ago, but I''m not sure where the default install goes.

Are there many Ruby on Rails Mac users on the list?

regards,

Matt

Hey Matt their are lot of RoR Mac users. I would strongly suggest  
installing Darwin Ports (http://www.darwinports.org) and installing  
ruby, rails, and any other open source tools via Darwin Ports. This  
will save you a ton of frustration.


On Sep 16, 2005, at 3:48 PM, Matt Moran wrote:
> Greetings - just joined the list. My name is Matt, I''m a 35 year  
> old programmer looking to get into Ruby on Rails. I''ve been poking
> around with it for about a day or so on my Mac, trying out the  
> various tutorials on the net. I''m having a problem with irb where
> if you start it with the auto-complete option enabled, it throws an  
> exception and crashes - maybe it''s down to the version number; I  
> have v1.8.1 of Ruby installed for some reason, though I''m told  
> 1.8.2 is the default with MacOSX 1.4. I suspect the earlier 1.8.1  
> install may be part of the Ruby On Rails .pkg file I installed a  
> couple of days ago, but I''m not sure where the default install
goes.
>
> Are there many Ruby on Rails Mac users on the list?
>
> regards,
>
> Matt
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- Bill

Matt,

Locomotive + TextMate

ROR development on MacOS X is a no-brainer, thanks to Locomotive
Locomotive is a 1-click all-in-one ROR dev environement installer and 
runner.
    http://locomotive.sourceforge.net/


I also suggest you download the free-trial of TextMate,
(an editor that knows about Ruby and Rails. Not perfect, but very useful.)
     http://macromates.com/


Alain