On: Rails isn't for beginners

[xyzzyb]

I'm pretty interested in that project. We had a dev on Lion try to get a Ruby 1.9.3 + Rails 3.2 environment up who ran into all kinds of issues: a far cry from the days of locomotive indeed.

[mattbriggs → xyzzyb]

for future reference, step 1 - gcc toolchain (https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer or xcode), step 2 - rvm (http://beginrescueend.com/), step 3 - "rvm install 1.9.3 && rvm 1.9.3 --default && gem install rails" (homebrew will also probably be necessary for any dev work on osx, but not really needed to get rails going)

[prezjordan → xyzzyb]

I've found that rvm makes everything easier. And through OS X development I've also learned that I should avoid port at all costs.

[xyzzyb → prezjordan]

RVM is superb. And, yes, I think a major issue was that he was trying to use macports for installation of things instead of homebrew.