Back to the Very Beginning: Ruby on a Mac

Since I got a Mac Mini over the holiday break, I decided that I might as well start over using the new computer to learn Ruby. Of course, this meant installing the Ruby development environment on a Mac after finally getting it to work on my PC.

I decided to go with a combo of MAMP and Locomotive. Since Locomotive does not use a MySQL database, I followed the advice of WoobleLab when creating a link between my Locomotive and the MySQL database that comes with MAMP. The WoobleLab directions required one slight modification. The Locomotive preferences need to be set to:

/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/mysql

After I finally got the development environment working, I was able to really get going. It was so much better to be able to use a UNIX terminal instead of the Windows command line. I got through Chapter 6 again today and will start redoing Chapter 7 tomorrow.