Thanks for the input. I actually used jEdit for a few years when I first started developing in java, but have used Eclipse now for the last 3 or 4 years. The main reason for choosing Textmate over XCode is that there seems to be a lot of contributions from the rails community, as far as snippets, etc, that should make some work more effcient.
I suppose the only real reason I have for not using the Ruby version that is already available is that it's 1.8.6 and my deployment environment (my hosting service), uses 1.8.7. Not too sure if there are any changes between versions that would be significant to me. On Apr 17, 1:48 pm, Marnen Laibow-Koser <rails-mailing-l...@andreas- s.net> wrote: > 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 > outhttp://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 > (seehttp://marnen.livejournal.comfor setup info) and/or TextWrangler. > > Best, > -- > Marnen Laibow-Koserhttp://www.marnen.org > [email protected] > -- > Posted viahttp://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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
