First Time Installation Of Ruby On Rails (Pre Packaged)

[Jason]

I'd like to install ROR on my Powerbook and I have looked at the link below for installing a pre-packaged version as I am not confident in manually installing it.

The link is for 'Locomotive'

http://locomotive.raaum.org/home/show/HomePage


However, I do have two questions:

1. Is it difficult to install and is there a chance it will screw up my PB?

2. When you have it installed, does it work in a 'sandpit' kind of environment where there is no chance you could upset other things.

I am running OSX 10.4.5 on a PB G4 1.67ghz with 2GB of RAM.

Kind Regards

[rollercoaster375]

1. No. The only thing it could screw up is your Apache install, which, unless you have Web Sharing turned on, will have no impact on the rest of your system. (Also, I don't know if it's hard to install or not. I built and manually installed Ruby/Rails on my computer)

2. I think you mean "sandbox". And no, it does not, however, what are you thinking it would mess with?

[Jason]

Sorry, yeah I meant Sandbox. I was worried it could upset the OS somehow.
How do I program with Ruby? Through the Console?

Regards

[Meltedbutter421]

ROR= Ruby On Roids
Ok Ill leave now, I have no place being in the "Programer's Nook" :p

[pmazer]

Jason:

Yes, Locomotive does install in a sandboxed environment. It shouldn't mess up anything. Go ahead and try it out. Have fun!

Ruby can be programmed in any basic text editor.

[JayReding]

I use Locomotive all the time.

It's totally self-contained. It won't mess with your system.

The recommended text editor for ROR is TextMate (http://www.macromates.com/) which does a very good job of integrating with Locomotive. You can try it out for free for 30 days, then a license is €39 (about $40 USD).

It won't mess up your Apache install since it defaults to running apps on port 3000 and above - you shouldn't have any problem with it at all.

[Jason]

Sorry to bump this thread but I need to uninstall Locomotive for a bit. I used App Zapper to find all instances of the Locomotive and moved them to the trash.
However, when I go to delete, I get the error message below.

Can anyone help me here?

http://www.jasonnewton.net/locomotive.png

Regards

[chucker]

Try 'killall lighttpd' in Terminal.

If that doesn't work, 'lsof -n | grep lighttpd' should give you information on which file is using the item.

For more information, check this out (http://stevenf.com/mt/2006/05/lsof_your_new_best_friend.php).

[Brad]

Also hold the option key while emptying the trash.

[Jason]

Thanks Guys.