Blog before you Think!

If you are curious about Ruby on Rails but didn’t jump on the bandwagon yet, you might want to check out Locomotive (which has been around for a while now, but I just discovered it this weekend.)

Locomotive is a self-contained one-click solution for Mac OS X (10.3+) and includes everything to get you started deploying existing apps for Rails.

In most cases running an application via Locomotive is as easy as to:

• download and unpack it
• create a database (CocoaMySQL might help you with that) and import the provided MySQL dump
• change one or two configuration files (usually just config/database.yml which contains the database settings)
• run the application via Locomotive

Here are my favorites so far (a list of available open source projects is here):

• Tracks (getting things done)
• Snippets (taggable text snippets)
• Typo (blogging on Rails)