Instant Rails
I installed Instant Rails on my laptop for dev. FYI background on instant rails is here:
Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. No installer, you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. It does not modify your system environment.The thing is… other than the additional MySql install, installing rails yourself isn’t any harder than Instant Rails. I don’t know exactly what was wrong with my install of Instant Rails, but it seemed flakey. So, I have uninstalled instant rails and now just dev on the web-brick server; there is no need for apache or iis.