How to get Ruby on Rails and MySQL working on Leopard!
Scot Rozic has published a great tutorial on how to get RoR running in Leopard.
It’s a lot of work, but worth it. One quick note, when you jump to the site, remember you do not need to compile MySQL from source, you do need to make the group and owner permissions right, so follow Apple’s advice on that (check the chown -R and chgrp -R commands there.)
The rest of the steps are straight forward. And yes it will take you some time, not as easy as PHP or Apache!
Here is the URL: http://gravit.as/blog/socialapps/setuprailsonleopard/
Now to use a GUI interface to manipulate MySQL run to Cocoa MySQL and get the latest build… while it’s free. It’s donation ware, but is so good, I would not be surprised it became shareware one day.
I recommend you do get XCode 3 anyway, and do become a member of Apple Developer Connection, it’s free, and it’ll be useful. XCode 3 is big, so be patient as it downloads, from now on you will have a great free IDE and you will be able to compile from source a lot of software.
PS. Scot has also written a nice Wordpress how to for Leopard.
