Recommended RoR setup and installation instructions

From RAD Lab

If you're taking one of the RoR classes or just want to get started with RoR, here's our recommended setup. Note: If you're taking a class you are also free to use another setup, but these are the only ones officially supported by course staff.

1 Basic RoR stack, database, editors, etc.
- 1.1 Mac OS X
- 1.2 Windows (2000, XP, Vista)
2 Recommended CSS Resources
- 2.1 Learning CSS
- 2.2 Tools for developers

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Basic RoR stack, database, editors, etc.

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Mac OS X

RoR software stack. Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) already has everything you need installed. For Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or earlier, we recommend the free 1-click install Locomotive.
Development & testing database. We recommend SQLite for simplicity if you're just getting started. It's included with Mac OS X Leopard or Locomotive. You will want a GUI database editor such as Mike T.'s Cross-platform SQLite GUI to help you experiment.
Text editor or IDE. We recommend TextMate, for which we have a UCB-wide site license at UCB Software Central (login with your Calnet ID).
An ssh (secure shell) client. This is part of Mac OS X so you don't need to install anything separately.
An svn (Subversion) client. We recommend this pre-built binary .
You may need a Git client. We found packages for OS X 10.4 Tiger

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Windows (2000, XP, Vista)

RoR software stack, including a database: We recommend the free InstantRails for Win32, which includes SQLite 3.
You will want a GUI client for SQLite, such as Mike T.'s Cross-platform SQLite GUI, to help you experiment.
Text editor or IDE. We recommend...what?
An ssh (secure shell) client. We recommend the free PuTTY.
An svn (Subversion) client. We recommend this pre-built binary (which includes Kerberos and ssh support). NOTE: Even if you already have TortoiseSVN or some other GUI-like integration of SVN into your IDE, you still need a command-line svn client in order for Capistrano to work properly when you deploy your app.

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