Re: OSX Leopard: Rails/Mongrel/Capistrano built in

Greg Donald
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:35:24 -0000

On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
> This is one reason I''m using Locomotive at the moment.
Self-contained
> and doesn''t really conflict with anything else as far as I can
see.

Your reasons are your own I guess but you can very easily manipulate the
PATH environment variable and install anything anywhere.

The Mac OS uses /usr and ports uses /opt/local.  Most open source stuff
has a default --prefix of /usr/local so it''s really just a matter of
putting /opt/local/bin ahead of /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin ahead of
/opt/local/bin in the PATH.

> I would think that it would be advantageous to at least *look* at what
> Leopard provides before you make this decision.

The reality is it will likely be out of date when it''s released.  Since
you can''t update Xcode from any sort of automated mechanism I doubt the
Rails stuff will be much different.  Ports are a good way to keep up to
date but I prefer to install my main workflow stuff from source so I can
control the exact versions.


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Greg Donald
Cyberfusion Consulting