Take a ride on a Locomotive for the simplest Ruby-on-Rails-on-Mac experience May 15, 2006
Posted by James Webster in : apple, development , trackbackIf you are a Mac developer hankering for some Rails fun and games, and haven’t checked out Locomotive yet, go now! It has just been updated to version 2.0 and it is without a doubt the simplest and most complete way to do Rails development on a Mac. It includes a helpful GUI for creating new Rails apps, starting and stopping them. It also has a number of useful modules compiled in; most notably ImageMagick and its Ruby binding RMagick. By themselves these things are a real beeyotch to get built but no problem whatsoever with Locomotive. One handy new feature in the latest version is the inclusion of a command-line tool for interacting with Rails applications.
Now if only Steve Jobs would hurry up and introduce the MacBook I might have a slightly faster development environment than this Mac mini that’s just SO ‘05!
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hey James, I’ll be sure to check Locomotive out. Just wanted to send a quick, somewhat inconsequential question to you…it’s somewhat related to this post, I guess.
First off, I’m really excited to be joining ThoughtWorks in August. I’ll be based in Chicago, perhaps we’ll meet at some point.
My question is this: how tough is it to be a Mac person at TW? Is Apple hardware supported? I’m sure I could have asked this question through more “official” routes, but I figured you blogged on a related topic, so I might as well ask.
I’ll be happy to take an answer “offline,” via email or otherwise. Thanks, and I’ll enjoy reading more of your blog!
Looks like Steve answered to your call: http://www.apple.com/macbook/