I quit my job a few weeks ago and lost my work iBook 1.4Ghz 1.5GB.
Not thinking ahead, I already had given my old 17" powerbook 1GHZ 1GB
to my wife and she doesn't want to give it back now. :{ So,
additected to OS X, I picked up a 17" LCD iMac 800Mhz for $200 (!) a
couple weeks ago for the meantime until this summer when I buy a new
MacBook.
All that pointless info to say: I need something that will work
effectively as a dev environment on that old clunker 17" iMac. It
only has 512MB of ram so I can't ( I don't think ) be running a full
MySQL server and top-notch RoR server with a fat IDE. Lots of you
vouched for TextMate (although it seems odd to have to pay for dev
tools with RoR open source). Can I run some light server on top of
some super-light database for the db? What would you all suggest? I
have locomotive installed - is that enough combined with TextMate?
For example, in Java, I would use Cloudscape or some light foot-print
db with a trimmed down JBoss or Tomcat app server for development -
Not a full-blown Oracle and WebSphere which would be used for
production but an over-blown resource hog on a desktop.
-Tim
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