Star Developing Rails Applications on Mac OS X Leopard
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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RE: The stack
by elsewhere on Sun 2nd Mar 2008 04:15 UTC in reply to "The stack"
elsewhere
Member since:
2005-07-13

I believe that the Mac will continue to be the preferred platform for Rails development.


I'll admit I'm not necessarily up to date on these things, but when was the Mac annointed as the preferred platform for Rails development?

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RE[2]: The stack
by PowerMacX on Sun 2nd Mar 2008 04:21 in reply to "RE: The stack"
PowerMacX Member since:
2005-11-06

I'll admit I'm not necessarily up to date on these things, but when was the Mac annointed as the preferred platform for Rails development?


Check this blog post dated August, 2006, on the official rubyonrails.org site for an answer ;-)

It’s finally official: Ruby on Rails will ship with the next version of OS X [...] It’s been no secret that Apple is held in very high regard by the Rails community. Every single Rails Core contributer is running on Apple and the vast majority of Rails developers are too. To see Apple acknowledge this and return the favor is very rewarding.

http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2006/8/7/ruby-on-rails-will-ship-with...

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RE[3]: The stack
by elsewhere on Mon 3rd Mar 2008 03:14 in reply to "RE[2]: The stack"
elsewhere Member since:
2005-07-13

Check this blog post dated August, 2006, on the official rubyonrails.org site for an answer ;-)


Ok, good enough for me.

Like I said, I don't follow RoR that closely, and had no idea that OSX had become that predominant as a development platform.

I will admit that I was presuming OSX favoritism, so will graciously eat my hat and admit that I've learned something new. ;)

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RE[2]: The stack
by google_ninja on Sun 2nd Mar 2008 13:19 in reply to "RE: The stack"
google_ninja Member since:
2006-02-05

The entire RoR core team uses OSX and TextMate, which is a phenomenal editor.

I've been a UltraEdit guy for years now, but E-TextEditor got me to switch, and E is basically just an attempt to do TextMate on windows.

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RE[3]: The stack
by asdx24 on Sun 2nd Mar 2008 22:17 in reply to "RE[2]: The stack"
asdx24 Member since:
2007-05-17

There are Rails core contributors like Tim Pope (tpope) that uses Linux/Vim too ;)

Btw, tpope is also the author of Rails.vim and other good vim plugins.

And for me the best development platform is Linux of course.

Edited 2008-03-02 22:18 UTC

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RE[2]: The stack
by mabhatter on Mon 3rd Mar 2008 01:56 in reply to "RE: The stack"
mabhatter Member since:
2005-07-17

Vista doesn't ship with Rails, does it....nuff said!

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