[willcannings]

That's really a comment about your distro, not about Ruby or Rails. It /should/ be as simple as installing Ruby, then `gem install rails`. If it's not then something is broken with your distro's package.

[wdewind]

mac osx, same amount of bullshit. its great when it works, sometimes it just doesnt and you have to do random shit to make it work.

[incomethax]

Rails has been bundled with the developer tools for MacOSX since 10.5 - I admit that it was a bit annoying if you were compiling Ruby yourself in days prior.