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

Marnen Laibow-Koser
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:02:58 -0000

Greg Donald wrote:
> 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 know all that.  But keeping it all in the Locomotive.app bundle is --
for my purposes in testing and development -- even simpler.

>
>> 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 The reality is it will likely be out of date when it''s released.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 think, but am not positive, that it works with Software Update.

> I doubt the
> Rails stuff will be much different.

Again, I assume that Apple releases will come through Software Update.

> 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.

I''d be more inclined to do this for a production (or beta) server (and
why use Mac OS for that anyway?).  But for my development computer, I
just want a simple installation so that I can focus on implementing the
application I''m trying to write, not the Ruby interpreter behind it.
That''s why I''m using Locomotive right now.

>
>
> --
> Greg Donald
> Cyberfusion Consulting
> http://cyberfusionconsulting.com/

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