So, I’ve long been saying how dang hard it is to install Rails and Ruby and LightTPD and all the other stuff that goes along with it. One aspect of getting started with Rails became so much easier when I stumbled upon LiteSpeed Web Server.

All I had to do was download the binary, type sudo install.sh and then type http://localhost:7080 into my web browser. From there I was two clicks away from getting a Rails install up and running.

I then used niload to load my hosts file into NetInfo manager. Edit /etc/hosts and then type sudo niload -m hosts / into Terminal.app.