Leopard to include Ruby on Rails
Written on August 13, 2006 by Brandon Eley and 4 people have commented
Apple will be including Ruby on Rails in the next version of OS X (Leopard), both server and client.
I’m a big fan of RoR and since the version of Ruby that shipped with my Mac was a little botched, I’m excited to hear that they’re including a tested version of both Ruby and Rails in the next version.
I wonder how many Rails sites will be running on the new Xeon Xserves? I wouldn’t mind getting my hands on one, that’s for sure!
#1 Gerald Buckley says:I know of three yet to be provisioned new XServes that will be running RoR on five web sites. What we have now a G4 and two G5 XServes do a great job. I can only imagine how much faster some of the processor and i/o dependent functions will be. Totally pumped about the architecture updates.
#2 Scott says:Glad to hear this!
Struggled installing RoR on Tiger last week to play around w/ some of the latest blog and general CMS, but couldn’t get it set up.
Leopard should save me this trouble.
#3 Brandon Eley says:Scott, did you try Locomotive for OSX? It’s a standalone Ruby on Rails installation that you can just drop into your App folder.
I did it the hard way, line by line as is in the instructions for installing RoR on Mac OS X, but soon after saw Locomotive and wished I had just waited. Either way, there are options that will get RoR working on your Mac.
#4 Mark Burgess says:Has anyone heard about which versions of Apache, MySQL and PHP will be in Leopard? The ones included with Tiger are getting a bit long in the tooth.