Ruby installs quicker than Scoffield breaks out of prison. Less than half an hour, and Ruby with Rails is installed and running on my Powerbook. For the most part I used default options since I’m not sure about package choices and what not yet. That should come with time.

Installation Notes:
1) Start at the Ruby on Rails site. Download Ruby 1.8.4 as suggested.
2) Follow the Install directions in the README file. I had to run /configure twice, making both times, as I got a message at the end of the first make telling me my Tk and Ruby were not running compatible versions of pthreads and lockups could occur. I don’t anticipate using Tk, but you never know, so I re-ran configure as suggested by the message at the end of the make so I don’t run into problems later. I did uncomment some modules in the ext/Setup file before running make. I may not have needed to. More later.
3) Back to the RoR site, and its instructions for Gems and Rails. I ran all commands from the downloaded directory.
4) Create the path and start the server like the RoR site explains.

Process Notes:
1) Run install commands as su – including the ruby make install and the gems and rails commands.

Points for down the road:
1) I’ll likely find a nice location on my laptop for the SVN and CVS repositories so I can create a batch file to auto checkout files, compile, and install newer versions if either updates are needed, or I need to add in packages I didn’t know about. I’ll publish this batch file if I ever create it.
2) Look at plugins.
3) Create an alias for starting the server in the background.
4) Running like suggested pops logging to stdout – the terminal. Need to narrow down better logging mechanism.
5) Follow directions on the rails server’s site – create DB, etc

I’ve got my install, my next round of tasks, and my project. Next – design phase and some more setup.

Fun fact: It took me longer to write this post than it did to do everything described in it. Hot damn.

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