Brad A wrote: > I know this has been asked often over the years, looking for the > latest best practice.. > > I'm a total mac noob, have been using windows/cygwin up until now.
Welcome to the Mac community! Check out http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/ for some useful tips. > > Looks like the basic approaches I've seen so far: > - Leave the pre-installed ruby 1.8.6 and just update the rails gem That's what I'd advise. There's no reason to do it any other way that I can see, unless you want to try Ruby EE. [...] > Mac has there own tutorial on the developer site, No. The company is called Apple. :) > but it requires > using XCode and I want to use TextMate, so I haven't paid much > attention to their instructions. That's a foolish reason to ignore it. A text editor is a text editor. But before you blow €39 on TextMate, try jEdit (see http://marnen.livejournal.com for setup info) and/or TextWrangler. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org [email protected] -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
