Installing Locomotive was easy – really, really easy. I thought it would be easy, but it was even easier than I expected.
All you have to do is download it on your Mac, open the .dmg file (e.g. Locomotive_1.0.0a.dmg), go inside it (it is a mountable disk image) and copy the Locomotivefolder found within to the Application folder on your Mac. It lives their with all your other applications.
In the Locomotive folder, the author has already thoughtfully provided a minimum bundle of software for supporting a Ruby on Rails environment. But you can get more by downloading the maximum bundle of software he put together. I went thought route.
To get/use it in Locomotive, simply download the max bundle (e.g. Rails_1.0.0_Max.dmg) and open it. Inside, copy the whatever.bundle file that comes with it, into the Bundles folder inside your Locomotive folder that you have in your Applications folder. That’s it. I thought I would have to delete or rename the min bundle – but you don’t.
Locomotive will now let you choose between the min bundle and the max bundle when you run it. Very nice!!
I blogged about it, in case you want more info.
