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My prior failures at using my Mac to develop Rails apps left me with a few options. After a realization that paving my Mac was in my future, I shook the dice and decided to dual-boot OS X and Ubuntu on the Mac.
It was easy and painless. Install OS X, then boot the Ubuntu install CD, and it installs a dual-booter for you. Be warned that some Mac mini hardware doesn't work on Ubuntu. WiFi will likely never be supported, because Broadcom won't write drivers and won't release hardware specs. Bluetooth should work but seemingly doesn't. Sound requires a one-off kernel (with flaky sound behavior and performance) until 2.6.12 is released with module support for the mini's sound system.
Nevertheless, this is exactly the development environment I was after. Synaptic (GUI over apt-get) gave me everything I needed except RubyGems and Rails, which was easy to add when all was said and done. Getting an LUA development environment was a piece of cake, since Rails + WEBrick is really exactly what you need.
Ruby is a very impressive language. I'm going to have a hard time going to work tomorrow morning and writing a bunch of C# code after living in loosely-typed land all weekend. ;)
One thing that's missing is a good Ruby IDE for Ubuntu. I've been using nano and emacs to edit the files, but that won't last long.
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