After putting it off for a while, I finally got Ruby on Rails running on OS X 10.4 (Tiger) the other night so that I could take a look at it. Crazily enough, I actually had an install from last May that I must have given up on. Luckily, all I had to do was update it with new Gems and everything was in working order… except for MySQL. Wow was that a headache.

In the end, after getting some very kind help from Jake, I found out that in my /usr/local directory were a number of failed MySQL installs that were preventing it from running. I simply cleared out every install, re-downloaded the latest MySQL binary and within minutes finally had my basic program from a tutorial, interestingly enough by Apple, up and running!

I played around and tinkered for a little while after this, and maybe it’s just my lack of understanding of the Model-View-Controller architecture, but it’s just not something I could see myself learning. In fact, as much as I get bashed for it, hell, I love coding basic webapps in Perl. When it comes to simply querying and inserting into a database, it gets the job done!