Ruby on Rails

A Web Development Toolkit

Although I don't have it yet, apparently Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard" comes with ROR. I'm still on "Tiger", so I had to install it manually. Fortunately, I found a great Tutorial at Dave Benjamin's Site.

Then I found a decent demo video on launching a blog with ROR. I noticed the author uses another of my favorite applications, CocoaMySQL. The text editor in the demo is TextMate, but I'll stick with BBEdit.

After some flogging along and encountering a few problems, I discovered that the gem package installer had installed rails version 2.0 (brandy-new!), and the reference material I had been using was for rails 1.1. I decided the easiest solution was to retrograde back to 1.1 so that I could follow the reference tutorials. This required uninstalling rails 2.0.1 and installing 1.2.6:

excelsior$ sudo gem uninstall rails

excelsior$ sudo gem install -v=1.2.6 rails

Then I could continue with
excelsior$ rails blog

-- To Be Continued --