Accelerating From a Stop January 7, 2008
Posted by craiglp in Leopard, OS X, Software, programming, rails, ruby, software engineering.Tags: rails, ruby
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Ok, step one: Install Netbeans 6.0 Ruby version. No problem here, it works like any other package install. Now to configure it to my taste. The main change is to change the default Ruby engine from the included JRuby to the OS X installed 1.8.6 version of Ruby. I have nothing against JRuby, but at this stage I don’t want to debug JRuby related issues, so I want to stick with the de facto version. On Windows the location of your local Ruby installation is easy enough to find, c:\ruby\bin\ruby.exe. On OS X I looked all over for it. It ran fine from the console, so it was installed and worked. But, where is the binary? I looked in the usual places, that I could think of, no joy. So, I turned to my local OS X/Ruby/NetBeans guru: Google. After much searching, I found a page with the path I needed. It seems that Ruby has been “framework-ized” into OS X. But, the binaries have been symlinked to: /usr/bin/ruby. Problem solved.
Step two: MySql. Downloaded. Installed from package. Done. Well, I need to install an OS X admin util. But, I can administrate it from the command-line in the meantime.
I opened the Depot Rails app from the Agile Rails book, ran the DB migrations and fired it up. Success.
Ok, I have a usable environment. Time to code.
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