Locomotive
development has come to an end.
With the advent of a fully-functional Ruby and Rails stack
on Leopard, Locomotive is no longer needed. Also, I don't
have the time anymore. Thanks for using it.
Hello and
welcome to Locomotive. This is a simple tool to help
you develop Ruby on Rails applications on Mac OS X. While
those not choosing to set up their Rails development
environment using Locomotive may spend hours frustrated by
broken libraries, compilation errors, and incomprehensible
incompatibilities, you will be able to jump right into
Rails development the minute you finish downloading.
Regardless of whether you are a beginner or an expert,
Locomotive will save you time, reduce your stress, and
eliminate (your rails installation related) exasperation.
Try it now!
One Step
Install - No Commitment
Drag-n-drop is all there is to installing Locomotive.
Try Ruby on Rails without worrying about breaking your
current system - it's entirely self-contained. You can
always muck around on the command line and irrevocably
modify your system with a custom install later, but after
trying Locomotive, most people don't need anything more.
Built for
whatever Mac you have
Locomotive is available as a Universal Binary -
native to both PowerPC and Intel architectures (It does,
however, require Mac OS X 10.3 or later). So, regardless of
whether you're on the bleeding edge, your current system is
a workhorse, or you're holding out for the next hardware
revision, Locomotive is for you.
No more
guessing
Know instantly: Which applications are running? On
what ports? In which environment? (A green indicator
signifies the 'development' environment while an aqua
indicates the 'production' environment.)
Choose Your
Version
Simultaneously run multiple versions of Rails, each
of which may be configured with different libraries, gems,
or web servers. Locomotive uses "Bundles", each of which is
a self-contained installation of Ruby, Rails, and all the
necessary support software and libraries (as well as many
useful optional tools!).
One order
of image tools, please
Images, images everywhere, but how to convert them to
the file format and size you need? The ImageMagick package
and the Ruby RMagick bindings are the preferred tools of
Rails experts for image manipulation - BUT are also
notoriously difficult to properly install and configure.
Locomotive spares you the pain. Just download the +RMagick
bundle from the Bundles page and you're ready to go!
