Ruby on Rails

Macintosh OS X

Text Editors While we are a big fan of BBEdit (and have used it for almost a decade), we are very pleased with TextMate for Ruby development. With many Ruby developers using it, we suggest you give it (and BBEdit) a try to see which one works best for you.

Installing Rails on OS X We have found this Hivelogic article on install Ruby/Rails on OS X very helpful. We used it for OS X 10.4 (Tiger), and under 10.3 (Panther) it works too, even with Ruby 1.8.5.