One Stop OSX Ruby Environment

I just got a new laptop, and Jerrod has convinced me to load everything fresh instead of using the migration tools to just copy over all my stuff from the old laptop. A royal pain in the ass, but considering the old laptop is seven going on eight years old and has remnants of four operating systems upgrades it’s definitely the correct strategy.

I’m playing catch-up with the ninja on this ruby thing. The link below contains a list of gems and associated software that the author claims will probably have a life span of around 6 months, so don’t expect this list to be relevant for much longer. Still… a great starting point for setting up a ruby on rails development environment on the mac.

Giant Robots' Rubyist Setup Guide

Git Yer Ruby On!

There’s an awesome this-is-what-it’s-all-about article at Smashing Magazine describing in fairly non-technical language what Ruby on Rails is all about. Our company has been using RoR for custom web development for a while now. Our latest Ruby creation is a registration app that was built for Valley Metro. Start to finish (including planning, meeting with the various stakeholders in the project, scoping, wireframing, testing and execution) in 12 days.

Getting Started With Ruby on Rails

This is a collection of stuff I find interesting, Christine’s recipes, and cat photos.

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