How to start with Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X Snow Leopard? [closed]

Question

Is there any good tutorial on how to get things installed and working on Mac OS X Snow Leopard? Also which tools do you use? TextMate? Or something else?

I am trying my first steps with RoR after years of ASP.NET development on Windows platform but I am getting curious to learn other things as well to become a better developer.

Answer 1

The ruby AND rubygems on snow leopard is sufficient. So to get started:

$ sudo gem install rails
$ rails my_first_project
$ cd my_first_project
$ ./script/server

:-)

Answer 2

Dan Benjamin has some great instructions over at Hivelogic for compiling and installing 64-bit Ruby, RubyGems and Rails on Snow Leopard. They get installed in /usr/local so they don't affect the versions that come with Mac OS X.

TextMate works great for Rails development—DHH helped to develop it—but most recently I've switched over to using Vim.