Tim,
Running tests on a larger Rails project puts it through it's paces
pretty well, and in Activity Monitor, it looks like PostgreSQL
requires about 5mb of physical RAM, while Ruby requires about 20 MB.
As long as you have a couple of gigs of swap-space, you should be fine.
As far as Textmate goes, try that free 1 month usage, and see if you
don't buy it. Unlike every other editor I've used, it is very hard to
fluster the syntax highlighting in it. And if you're the type to dig
below the surface, the macro support etc is pretty powerful.
Chris
On 4/20/06, Tim Dysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> PDXRuby mailing list
> [email protected]
> IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net
> http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
>
--
Chris Anderson
http://musicfordozens.com/jchris
_______________________________________________
PDXRuby mailing list
[email protected]
IRC: #pdx.rb on irc.freenode.net
http://lists.pdxruby.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxruby
