[Metalab] Fresh: Ruby One-Click Installer for Mac OSX

[Matthias Tarasiewicz]

hallo leute, wollte euch mal von unserem aktuellen projekt berichten;
bitte um feedback und weiterleitung.

gruss,
parasew

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Ruby developers working on the Macintosh OS had hard times: broken
Readline library on Tiger, too old Ruby on Panther and Rails not
working at all, since it requires Ruby 1.8.4. Distributing Ruby-based
software can be a pain, since you don't know which packages people
have installed.  We created the Ruby One-Click Installer exactly to
fix that issues: a minimal installer for people that want to start
coding or want to distribute their software to people that don't have
xcode. No compiling necessary.


This package is the most simple way to equip your Macintosh Apple OSX
System with Ruby - similar to the Windows Ruby One-Click Installer. It
replaces the broken Readline library, updates to a current version of
SQLite3 and prepares your OSX for Rails, which needs at least Ruby
1.8.4 to run. The current Ruby Version is 1.8.6 (1.8.5 is recommended
for Rails) and Rubygems 0.9.4.
This package's intention is to remain small while being a Universal
Binary that serves everything to deploy Ruby Applications on OSX
Machines - Cheetah, Puma, Jaguar, Panther, Tiger or Leopard. You don't
need to compile anything and you don't need Apple's Developer Tools
(xcode) installed.

Also in the Package:

* SQLite3, to have the tightest ACID-compliant relational database
management system available.
* Ruby/LDAP, in order to enable interfacing with LDAP-Servers via
ruby-net-ldap or Active::LDAP.
* Ragel State Machine Compiler in case you plan to use SuperRedCloth
or Hpricot (and others).
* Mongrel Webserver plus dependencies (daemons, fastthread,
gem_plugin, rake, cgi_multipart_eof_fix), for your ultimate HTTP
needs.

You can download the Ruby One-Click Installer for OSX from our site:
http://rubyosx.com

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The Ruby One-Click Installer for OSX is a Project by parasew and
5uper.net, originally written to support the popular Wiki-Software
instiki. Ruby is copyrighted free software by Yukihiro Matsumoto. This
Installer can also run Rails. If you want to help with development,
localization or translation go to the Project Page or join the
mailinglist.