IDK. The barriers to entry for RoR on the Mac are pretty high.
I was keenly interested in an open source open government project (Sunlight Foundation). I tried to get it running on my Mac, on my personal time. I had direct expert help (friends who dev using Ruby, Rails, etc.). I understand the tool stack was churning, something about mismatched versions, runtimes, whatever.
I gave up after three weeks.
I don't care care how "awesome" Rails is. If it doesn't work out of the box, like all the LAMPs distros, devs will find something that does.
I hate Spring, Maven, ORM and all the other webby enterprisey Java crap with the passion of a billion burning suns. But the RoR nonsense was a whole 'nother level of insanity.
I'd rather take a bat to the face, or use PHP, than try RoR again.
(I should add that my bad experience was ~1 year ago. Maybe things have improved. Alas, I've moved on to greener pastures.)
IDK. The barriers to entry for RoR on the Mac are pretty high.
I was keenly interested in an open source open government project (Sunlight Foundation). I tried to get it running on my Mac, on my personal time. I had direct expert help (friends who dev using Ruby, Rails, etc.). I understand the tool stack was churning, something about mismatched versions, runtimes, whatever.
I gave up after three weeks.
I don't care care how "awesome" Rails is. If it doesn't work out of the box, like all the LAMPs distros, devs will find something that does.
I hate Spring, Maven, ORM and all the other webby enterprisey Java crap with the passion of a billion burning suns. But the RoR nonsense was a whole 'nother level of insanity.
I'd rather take a bat to the face, or use PHP, than try RoR again.
(I should add that my bad experience was ~1 year ago. Maybe things have improved. Alas, I've moved on to greener pastures.)