Contents 
Ruby on Rails: Up and Running
Table of Contents
Copyright
Preface
Chapter 1. Zero to Sixty: Introducing Rails
Section 1.1. Rails Strengths
Section 1.2. Putting Rails into Action
Section 1.3. Organization
Section 1.4. The Web Server
Section 1.5. Creating a Controller
Section 1.6. Building a View
Section 1.7. Tying the Controller to the View
Section 1.8. Under the Hood
Section 1.9. What's Next?
Chapter 2. Active Record Basics
Section 2.1. Active Record Basics
Section 2.2. Introducing Photo Share
Section 2.3. Schema Migrations
Section 2.4. Basic Active Record Classes
Section 2.5. Attributes
Section 2.6. Complex Classes
Section 2.7. Behavior
Section 2.8. Moving Forward
Chapter 3. Active Record Relationships
Section 3.1. belongs_to
Section 3.2. has_many
Section 3.3. has_one
Section 3.4. What You Haven't Seen
Section 3.5. Looking Ahead
Chapter 4. Scaffolding
Section 4.1. Using the Scaffold Method
Section 4.2. Replacing Scaffolding
Section 4.3. Generating Scaffolding Code
Section 4.4. Moving Forward
Chapter 5. Extending Views
Section 5.1. The Big Picture
Section 5.2. Seeing Real Photos
Section 5.3. View Templates
Section 5.4. Setting the Default Root
Section 5.5. Stylesheets
Section 5.6. Hierarchical Categories
Section 5.7. Styling the Slideshows
Chapter 6. Ajax
Section 6.1. How Rails Implements Ajax
Section 6.2. Playing a Slideshow
Section 6.3. Using Drag-and-Drop to Reorder Slides
Section 6.4. Drag and Drop Everything (Almost Everything)
Section 6.5. Filtering by Category
Chapter 7. Testing
Section 7.1. Background
Section 7.2. Ruby's Test::Unit
Section 7.3. Testing in Rails
Section 7.4. Wrapping Up
Appendix A. Installing Rails
Section 1.1. Windows
Section 2.1. OS X
Section 3.1. Linux
Appendix B. Quick Reference
Section 5.1. General
Section 5.2. Testing
Section 5.3. RJS (Ruby JavaScript)
Section 5.4. Active Record
Section 5.5. Controllers
Section 5.6. Views
Section 5.7. Ajax
Section 5.8. Configuring Your Application
About the Authors
Colophon
Index
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2.1. OS X

The easiest way to get started on OS X is to use Locomotive (Figure A-3), which is very similar to Instant Rails on Windows, except that it uses the Lighttpd for the web server (instead of Apache) and SQLite for the database (instead of MySQL). For more details about Locomotive, go to its home page at http://locomotive.raaum.org.

Figure A-3. RadRails

  1. Download Locomotive from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=146941 (you can also download the "Bundle" version that contains extra libraries, like Rmagick).

  2. Simply drag and drop the file you just downloaded to your Applications folder.

  3. This book uses MySQL for the development database, so we recommend that you install and use MySQL instead of the SQLite included in Locomotive. Download the latest MySQL packages from http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/ and run the installer.

  4. To start Locomotive, double-click Locomotive.app.

That's all there is to it!

2.1.1. TextMate and RadRails

The commercial text-editor-on-steroids TextMate (Figure A-4) is very popular with Rails developers on OS X. Locomotive provides some minimal built-in support for TextMate. You can right-click a Rails app in Locomotive and choose to open its directory in TextMate.

Figure A-4. TextMate

TextMate is inexpensive, but not free. You can find out more about TextMate here: http://macromates.com.

If you want more than a pumped-up text editor, you'll be happy to know that the excellent RadRails IDE also runs on OS X. See the section "RadRails," earlier in this chapter.

Once installed, you can configure RadRails to work with your Locomotive installation by following the same steps shown in the Windows section of this appendix.

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