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So I thought it was pretty cool Rails and Ruby were included by default in Mac OS X Server 10.5. We upgraded our Xserve last Thursday. A bit of work for me but that’s only because I forgot Rails was included by default and I caused myself some headaches working against that. So today I was working with Podcast Producer (the reason for upgrading to 10.5). Looking through some log files I thought they looked eerily familiar. Then I noticed a reference for .rxml. A look at some other logs showed mongrel_rails. Turns out Podcast Producer is a Rails app. The heavy lifting of encoding is done by Xgrid but still a cool use of Rails nonetheless. And now you know too :)

By the way, my one pet peeve with 10.5 was that getting Apache 2 to set-up proxies and rewrites is basically impossible from the GUI especially when they should know you need that stuff to deploy a Rails app. Now I understand that it wasn’t necessarily Apple saying, “Wow, a cool segment to serve.” but rather “Well, we need Rails here anyway so why not advertise it?”