Screencasts

October 16th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

From time to time, we’ll add screencasts for tasks that are hard to convey by the written word.

  1. Lateral Punk
    August 17th, 2009 at 13:12 | #1

    Will you be posting the Mac screencast too?
    I used Macports to install ruby19, but that's an older build (May 2009). Your link above for windows refers to a newer August build of ruby19. Here's hoping you provide the equivalent Mac instructions.

  2. August 17th, 2009 at 17:41 | #2

    @Laternal Punk -- http://hivelogic.com/articles/ruby-rails-leopard - Here is a good instruction set on installing Rails and Gems on Mac. Please note that I recommend that you replace a few of the steps with the appropriate versions. Here is what I came up with.

    1.) Under Ruby, where they are downloading the 1.8.7... version of Ruby, replace that URL with: ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.1-p243.tar.gz (This gets 1.9.1, the same version of Ruby as the one click installer in the Windows screen cast)

    2.) With ruby gems, replace that URL with... http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/60718/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz (downloads the latest Gems).

    As for the rest of it, I would do as he said in the Windows, i.e. sudo gem install rails (This adds Rails, ActiveRecord, and about 6 others, so hang tight as it takes some time).

    Hope this helps.

  3. August 17th, 2009 at 17:42 | #3

    @Lateral Punk
    I meant my post as a reply to your post. Not sure how notifications are set up. Hope this information finds you well.

  4. August 17th, 2009 at 21:13 | #4

    @Lateral Punk
    Yes, there will be a Mac screencast. Typically the Windows users have more trouble, so I did that screencast first; but this time around I think it will be the Mac users who will be a bit challenged.

    The MacPorts / DarwinPorts may be acceptable, but in the screencast I'll show you how to build from source (which requires downloading and installing XCode from Apple).

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