Encouraged by Dan Benjamin's tutorial, i finally got around to installing everything i need to run Ruby on Rails on my mew Mac. Everything went smoothly except for the curl calls which would occasionally never finish. When that happened, i just grabbed the file with the appropriate ftp command sequence.
The guide made it really easy to install everything. I just wish there were a Part 2 that made it easy to configure and test the installation. After spending some time bouncing back and forth between Google and the command line, i got everything up and running. The lighttpd had good documentation though i haven't found an easier way to restart the server other than kill-ing it. I grabbed YourSQL to get at the mySQL data. Then i started following the tutorial on the Ruby on Rails wiki to make sure everything was working.
A couple of things I've found helpful...
1. Buy the Agile Rails book. http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/rails/index.html. One of the better technical books I've purchased.
2. There's a few handy lighty restart scripts at http://textsnippets.com/tags/lighttpd
3. Download Typo from http://typo.leetsoft.com. and just read through the code. You'll save yourself hours of doing things the wrong way.
4. Wait at least 3 days before denouncing every language and framework you've ever used.
Posted by: Jack at December 4, 2005 09:18 PM