[Locomotive-users] questions from a newbie

[Ryan Raaum]

On 9/23/06, a j <mittime at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Ryan,
>
> Was thinking to use locomotive for development purposes only.  But I was
> wondering if you could clarify three things:
>
> * Later if I decide to uninstall locomotive (of course this will probably
> not happen), do I just drag the folder to the trash?


Yes.

* And will any locomotive/rails/ruby/gems related stuff also disappear from
> my system or will it be hanging around somewhere?  (after I drag the
> locomotive folder to the trash)


Yes. Everything Locomotive-related (other than your rails projects) will be
gone.

* And is there any disadvantage to development using the database that
> locomotive uses by default (instead of MySql)-- if later we will end up
> using mysql in production?


Locomotive doesn't really use any database by default.  Sqlite is included
if necessary and is easy to use, however, it is also very easy to download
the MySQL installer for Mac from MySQL AB and use that with Locomotive.  If
you are sure you are going to use MySQL in the end anyways, you can easily
use it from the start with Locomotive.

  The only disadvantage that comes to mind is not being able to visually
> inspect & manipulate the database (e.g. with cocoamysql).  Any way around
> that?


I could swear that I had found a decent free sqlite browser at one point,
but can't come up with it now.  There are a few commercial offerings,
http://www.sqlabs.net/sqlitemanager.php looks nice.

Tried finding this info on the webpage but didn't find anything spelling
> this out.  Please let me know.
> Thanks!  Btw locomotive does look very good!  I just wanted to figure
> these things out.
> Thanks,
>
> mt
>
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