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.

The Ruby One-Click Installer for OSX is adding the installed files to /usr/local, not replacing Apple's original Ruby. That means you can easily uninstall this package or switch to Apple's Ruby again.

Also in this 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.
  
  

If you want to install Ruby on Rails with the Ruby One-Click Installer for OSX, just enter 'sudo gem install rails' in your Terminal.app after installation.

The main Package comes without any documentation files, in order to keep the download and installation-size at a minimum (the size after installation is always below 50MB). Most of the people who merely want to run Ruby applications don't need the documentation. If you need those files, please download and run the 'Documentation Package', which includes the complete ri and rdoc files for Ruby and the pre-installed gems.

Why is RubyOSX better than any huge 1000TB Rails-Everything-Out-Of-The-Box bloated installer? Maybe you want to deploy Ruby Applications without Rails (yes, that's also possible), say with the Camping Microframework. This Installer is small in size (both download and when installed) and can be easily uninstalled if you don't need it anymore - which won't be the case, we promise.