In Leopard and Leopard Server, Ruby and Rails are pre-installed along with a bounty of other useful RubyGems
Use the following commands to upgrade Rails and RubyGems
sudo gem update --system
sudo gem install rails
sudo gem update rake
sudo gem update sqlite3-ruby
The first commands updates the RubyGems itself, which is required by the latest version of Rails. The second command updates Rails-specific gems and installs any new components(specifically Active Resource). The third command updates Rake, the make-like build tool built by Rails. Finally, the last command updates the Ruby bindings for the SQLite3 database. Running all these commands may take a while. When it's finished, you can list all the installed gems by typing
gem list
You can view the documentation for all the installed gems by running
gem server
This command starts a web server on port 8808 by default. To access the documentation, point Safari to http://localhost:8808. You'll see a list of the gems you have installed with a link to their RDoc documentation.
Open a terminal window and type
svn co http://rubypython.svnrepository.com/svn/skid
This will download the software into a directory called skid.\ After that, enter into the terminal.
Install the hpricot gem by using the command:
sudo gem install hpricot
The installed version of rails must be 2.1.0. For this enter
sudo gem install -v=2.1.0 rails
After that, enter into the terminal the following commands:
cd skid
ruby script/server
Now fire up your browser, and point it to http://localhost:3000/modules/select/fun
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