On 4/20/06, Tim Dysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
I still do most all of my Ruby development on a 750Mhz PIII Thinkpad, having upgraded from a 400Mhz G4 PowerBook less than a year ago, so it's entirely possible to pull this off. I personally like TextWrangler a lot, and it's both free and lightweight. Also, Lighttpd makes a great low-footprint web server to front Rails applications. For the database, you can either run MySQL (which will do fine in a fairly small RAM footprint out of the box) or SQLite, which is very lean. > 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. Rails won't hog resources the same way a Java dev stack does for low numbers of users. You should be fine. -Lennon _______________________________________________ PDXRuby mailing list [email protected] IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
