Is Rails still included by default in a clean installation of Mac OS X 10.7 (aka Lion)?

Question

From reading this,

http://www.afp548.com/article.php?story=lion-server-review

I see Apple has dropped MySQL in favour of Postgre, so I'm wondering if it includes Rails bindings?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Just upgraded my machine (which had Rails installed) to Lion, and tried this,

macbook:expenses Snips$ rails server
Rails is not currently installed on this system. To get the latest version, simply type:

    $ sudo gem install rails

You can then rerun your "rails" command.

So, I guess the answer is no:-(

Answer 2

I've run into the same issue. I'm not sure which is the default with Lion but I found that

/Library/Ruby/1.8/bin/rails 

does the trick. Using sudo I moved the /usr/bin/rails to /usr/bin/rails.bak and symlinked to the other rails. That seems to work.

Interestingly, RubyMine found the correct rails command to use

Answer 3

BitNami Rubystack will work and provide you with a out-of-the-box Rails environment with MySQL on OS X (and a bunch of preconfigured, commonly used third-party libraries and apps). Disclaimer, I am one of the developers of RubyStack. It is distributed under the Apache 2.0 open source license