Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 2nd Mar 2008 01:28 UTC, submitted by Hakime
General Development "Ruby on Rails is a popular and powerful open source web framework for rapidly creating high-quality web applications to help you keep up with the speed of the Web. Rails is thriving on Mac OS X, and Leopard comes pre-installed with Ruby, Rails, Mongrel, Capistrano, Subversion, and other tools that help to streamline the development and deployment of Rails applications. This article gives you a full tour of Ruby on Rails 2.0 on Leopard - starting with building a web application using the latest Rails features with Xcode 3.0, and finishing with deploying the application to a production server running Leopard Server."
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The stack
by simianpirate on Sun 2nd Mar 2008 02:08 UTC
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The included Rails stack is indeed implemented VERY well. I am quite impressed with it overall. With the work that was put into it, and proper support for RubyGems built in, I believe that the Mac will continue to be the preferred platform for Rails development.

I only used XCode briefly, it is not bad at all, I just prefer my good old TextMate. It is my favorite Ruby editor and it just feels "right" to me. Since I have been writing Ruby on my Mac for quite some time. Netbeans never really felt right in my usage.

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