rails

Getting Rails up and running on Apache2 on SUSE is takes a little work as at the moment Rails is not part of the the SUSE software updates network. This means you must build Rails (and Ruby if using SuSE < 9.3) and the FastCGI development kit from source.

1. First off it you need Ruby 1.8.2 (or greater) to run Rails. If you have a version less than this you will need to compile and install Ruby from source.
Install GCC, make, the C devel, zlib and zlib-devel packages using Yast.
Download the latest version of Ruby from http://www.ruby-lang.org/
Untar the source file to /usr/local/src, compile and install (as root or sudo):

At the moment I am learning Ruby on Rails (I must say it is very impressive). Unfortunately getting it setup in OSX Tiger was not as straightforward as one would hope.
Although Apple have included Ruby with Tiger there are a few things that do not work right.
For my own future reference (and for anyone else that is interested) this is how I got it working with MySQL correctly on OSX Tiger and MySQL's own OSX binaries.

Follow the install intructions found here:
Rolling with Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X Tiger

Once installed open a Terminal window and enter the following:

sudo sh
(enter the admin password)
 
curl -O rufy.com/fix-ruby-tiger.sh; sh fix-ruby-tiger.sh
 
gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/lib/mysql --with-mysql-include=/usr/local/include
 
exit

This introduction video for Ruby on Rails is very impressive. Even if you don't know anything about programming it comes across as being very easy. If you are used to programming in Java like me watching this made me very, very jealous....

Ruby on Rails 15 minute introduction video