Re:Kickstarter: rails.app
by VeejayRampay on Wednesday March 28, 2012 @06:48PM
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Yehuda obviously intends to make it polished, useful and generic enough that it could be used for other players of the Rails ecosystem.
The Mac packaging itself will take some time.
Making sure that the project is versatile enough that it won't break but flex nicely at the sight of the next Rails release (or RVM or rubygems or whatever) in itself is no small feeat.
That'll throw a permissions error on a default OS X install-- and your Rails newbie will definitely not know that that means "you should really use rvm".
With that said-- a shell script that installs homebrew, git, rvm, the latest ruby, the latest rails, and a handful of useful gems, then drops you right into a shell of you brand spankin' new Rails (and Heroku!) project seems... pretty straightforward. Dealing with the common edge error cases and making it look nice and user friendly might take a couple hours. I'm curious to see where the time gets spent on this project.