Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X

Early this month, at the Apple Developer website, a very nice article came out on Ruby On Rails programming.

The article points out something I had already noticed: that a lot of important Ruby On Rails developers are using the Macintosh as their development platform. This follows an earlier trend of Java programmers gravitating toward the Macintosh platform a couple of years ago. And, before that, some open source developers as well. In fact, Apple hired a few of those Unix/Linux open source guys.


Apple Developer Connection:

It should come as no surprise that Mac OS X is a favored platform for
Rails development. Rails and its supporting cast of web servers and
databases thrive on the rich Mac OS X environment. A popular text
editor used by many Rails programmers is TextMate,
a Cocoa application. And all members of the Rails core development
team work with Macs.

The great thing about technologies like Ruby are you do not have to buy a Macintosh in order to program with them.

But a lot of programmers are.

The other great thing is that your users do not have to be no a Macintosh in order for them to run your programs.

But a growing number of users are.

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