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Oct 31 2005

Locomotive Ruby on Rails Distro for MacOSX

Posted by: dnorman in Uncategorized, tags: developmenttools, rails

I just grabbed the Locomotive distro of Ruby on Rails for MacOSX - what a nice package! Includes the latest build of Rails, a fresh copy of Ruby, all of the database connectors, RMagick and ImageMagick, some AJAX libraries, and a bunch of other stuff to play with. Best part is - it’s all self-contained in the Locomotive application, so it won’t affect any of the other bits installed on my system.

Looks like the best Rails development system so far - no idea if it translates to a server very easily though.

I’m going to try to force myself to play with Rails for at least a couple of hours every week to see what I can get it to do. This is a good headstart for that…

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One Response to “Locomotive Ruby on Rails Distro for MacOSX”

Oz Alfert says: November 7th, 2005 at 9:29 am

It’s definitely a superb package for getting started with Rails. In fact, I do all my development with it now. Deployment is as painless as any other rails app. You only deploy your app, not the Locomotive bundles, etc.