Ruby, Rails on Mac OS X
Having got MySQL (MySQL Community Edition — Database Server and Client: Mac OS X 10.4 (PowerPC) Standard, v5.0.22) running correctly with Webmin on Mac OS X the next step seemed to be to get Ruby on Rails running. I’m already working through an installation on RedHat 9 though with varying degrees of success. Having installed into a directory in the web root and followed a tutorial at OnLAMP (Rolling with Ruby on Rails) I managed to mis-remember a command this morning that overwrite my Cookbook project. On top of which I ended up upgrading Apache to 2.22 and having to recompile PHP.
Too nice a day to be trying to get everything right, but worth a stab with the Building Ruby, Rails, LightTPD, and MySQL on Tiger tutorial at hivelogic to get things running on the Mac. One project for work, one for home.
Anyway, having discovered I don’t have xcode installed, the 915Mb file is arriving from the Apple Developer Connection. It may take till tomorrow to get through to the end of the tutorial.
00:39 - following the tutorial I get as far as gem install rails and it doesn’t understand gem, so rails can wait till tomorrow evening.
It’s finished on the Mac and all installed. The secret to gem and most other things is to follow the instructions. By using sudo, rather than having issued su - it all fell together.
As for the other system (RedHat), I’m just about to reinstall from scratch.