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Installing Ruby, Rubygems, Rails, and Mongrel on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

These are instructions for compiling and installing Ruby, Rubygems, Ruby on Rails, and Mongrel on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). I walk you through getting your system ready for building and compiling open source software, and expand on the benefits of building your own open source utilities.