I just spent about two hours trying to set up Ruby on Rails on my Mac with MAMP. Here’s a quick and dirty of how to do it for those of you who don’t feel like going crazy.
Follow the installation steps for RoR here: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/getting-started/installation/mac
Edit your MAMP MySQL installation using the steps provided on this website: http://boonedocks.net/mike/archives/175-MAMP-and-the-Ruby-MySQL-Gem.html
After you’ve created your first Rails project, locate it on your computer, then go to config/database.yml and enter the following:
development: adapter: mysql database: XXX_dev username: root password: root timeout: 5000 socket: /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock # Warning: The database defined as "test" will be erased and # re-generated from your development database when you run "rake". # Do not set this db to the same as development or production. test: adapter: mysql database: XXX_test username: root password: root timeout: 5000 socket: /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock production: adapter: mysql database: XXX username: root password: root timeout: 5000 socket: /Applications/MAMP/tmp/mysql/mysql.sock
Finally, follow the steps provided here to create your MySQL DB for the project.
Good luck.
