Thanks for helping out and for alerting me about the code tags. I was using a different code highlighter on my old blog and these are the posts from there. I updated the code in this post so it now displays correctly.

Just a note to other visitors – check that you don’t get special characters and line feeds in the copy-and-paste from this page. Copy from this page, then paste into your text editor. Clean up the text there to look like the stuff on this page (leaving out the [code]code[/code] tags), and then paste into Terminal.

Aral, you might want to check the process you use for editing your articles, it appears to be using smart quotes (evil, evil smart quotes!), and the renderer isn’t handling [code]code[/code] tags properly. Sorry to be a pain :\

Thank you for that tip. Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, this was my first evening to be using RoR and I was just finished with the Locomotive install on my mac os x when I found your tip (I was looking for information on rails install help since I was receiving a “command not found” message upon typing “rails” (without quotes) into Terminal.

Before I tried your tip, I wasn’t finding rails anywhere on my system by typing it in Terminal. After doing your tip, it has just installed Rails in the folder that coincided with the new project you said to “right-click” on (in your step 1).

Now, I have all these neat (what appear to be) rails framework folders running in my photos folder. Ha! It’s kind of funny because when I typed rails from the command line, it now shows up in that photos folder. I laugh because I am assuming changing this location should be easy enough. Lord knows I can’t create all of my projects in my photos folder. I would like to move the install to the applications folder (where I thought I was putting it to begin with) or wherever it is supposed to be. I do use TextMate so would be glad if it opened up from there. I have only installed Locomotive though so rubygems is not on my computer.

Would you mind telling me how to change it to a better location? I tried to do the cp command in Terminal (the way you mentioned in your tip above) but it didn’t work the same way this time. It kept pasting in extra code (that I did not type) with the code I had copied.

Would you please help me move these files? I would be very appreciative!
Holly

[code]echo “source ~/.locomotive.environment.bash” >>~/.bash_profile[/code]

will *not* work unless you remove ">>". Maybe I have a freak installation of darwin on my version of 10.4.10, but that's how it went. After some head-scratching, I figured that those were either an artifact from pasting in code or an indication to continue on the next line. Either way, it's the only place that kind of thing appears in your post, so it's not consistent. Additionally, my system would not deal with locomotive.environment.bash as a hidden file with the leading ".", but I don't know if that's something other people would run into. Again, this is really useful code, and everyone seems to have had better results than I initially did, but I thought this was an important clarification.

You’re very welcome! :)