- Posted by azazeal on January 9, 2009
- Kick it! |
Today I had one of those new iMacs sent to me from a friend in order to repair something that didn't really need any fixing (I know, Macs never need fixing).
Anyway, as I'm going to have the Mac at my place for today and tomorrow, I started *using* it for more than text and photo editing so I got TextMate working, MySql up and Rails (Ruby is pre-installed so just gem install rails --include dependencies) and I started creating a new rails project.
I knew TextMate is a powerful development utility (more like a dev Swiss knife) since I've used it more than occasionally in the past I never developed any rails projects with it and what hit me at the time was how fast the whole thing started to come alive.
TextMate + Rails seems like a perfect match to me no matter what others may have to say, not to mention the Mac eye-candy that really makes my day whenever I happen to use one.
Two to three hours after that I found myself surfing a local e-commerce site (Greece doesn't have a big market for Macs - cry :() trying to find out how much would it cost me to get one for myself and believe me when I say that the "Express Checkout" button seemed really sexy at that point.
Despite the fact I didn't buy a Mac for myself (yet), days like these make me wonder: "Why oh why don't we (Greeks) have a development market in which Macs could be an option for our workstations?".