Yep. I shipped Tokaido and people use it. It was mentioned on Ruby Weekly last week.
You can get releases at https://github.com/tokaido/tokaidoapp/releases. Andres (who now maintains the project) released Tokaido for Ruby 2.1 (with support for Mavericks) recently and we're working on Ruby 2.2 support as we speak.
The org is here: https://github.com/tokaido/ and there are a number of auxiliary projects (muxr and tokaido-dns are the big ones) that I developed separately along the way.
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| Apr 2013 | 2013-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 2013 | 2013-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2013 | 2013-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Jul 2013 | 2013-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Aug 2013 | 2013-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Sep 2013 | 2013-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2013 | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2013 | 2013-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Dec 2013 | 2013-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Jan 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2014 | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2014 | 2014-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Apr 2014 | 2014-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| May 2014 | 2014-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2014 | 2014-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2014 | 2014-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Aug 2014 | 2014-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2014 | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2014 | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2014 | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2014 | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2015 | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2015 | 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
From the project README
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Read the project’s introduction
Tokaido.app
Background
Tokaido
installs Rails as a Mac OS X application.
Working copies of Ruby, Rubygems, Rails and all necessary gems
are installed into the user's system, available from the Terminal.
Getting Started
Visit https://github.com/tokaido/tokaidoapp/releases/
Click on the Tokaido.zip button to download the app
When the Application downloads, drag it to your Applications folder
Double Click Tokaido.app
Warnings
If you get a warning about the app not being loaded because it is from an unknown developer:
You can fix this by following the directions under "How to open an app from a unidentified developer and exempt it from Gatekeeper" here.
Developer Setup
When first cloning this repo, be sure to run the following:
gem install cocoapods
pod install
Scripts/package.sh
open Tokaido.xcworkspace
You should then be able to build and run Tokaido in Xcode.
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
11 sourcesYehuda's taking on another major software project before Rails.app [0] / Tokaido [1] is released? It's been 22 months since it raised twice its initial goal.
[0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397300529/railsapp
[1] https://github.com/tokaido/tokaidoapp
In Announcing the new Rust package manager, Cargohttps://github.com/tokaido/tokaidoapp
The last commit was 5 months ago and only a "prerelease" was ever available.
8 points · Open discussionseveral of us kickstarted a rails.app, but it isn't done yet. They have the open source version up atm and some somewhat dated binaries. (I know a lot of us were hoping to never have to configure ruby again, as we only use it for cocopods an iOS development tool)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397300529/railsapp
https://github.com/tokaido/tokaidoapp
https://trello.com/b/ZPhBe7Fh/tokaido-app
Binary: https://github.com/tokaido/tokaidoapp/releases
In 'Learn Ruby on Rails' is free todayYikes. This is pretty inaccurate.
Rails.app (now Tokaido) is on Github [1] and is coming along quite nicely. Our designer used a build of it to get one of our Rails apps up and running quite smoothly last week. It was super slick and as far as I can tell, there's no indication of it being at alpha or beta stage. It already works great.
Not to mention that Tilde has been working on Ember.js and developing Skylight.io as well. They're keeping busy and producing A TON.
Usually I wouldn't respond to this kind of thing but I think it's a pretty tough sell to anyone that Yehuda isn't working his ass off with the rest of Tilde.
[1]: https://github.com/tokaido/tokaidoapp
In Yehuda Katz and Tilde.ioFirst Pre-release of Tokaido (Rails.app)
4 points · Open discussionIf you are just trying to hack something together - don't worry. 1.8.7 has worked for a long time, and it will continue to do so for a while.
But if you are actually trying to build something to use long term - as crappy as it is to hear it now, it is not a great idea to use the system version of ruby. since it is likely as you get into ruby that you will have multiple projects which amy or may not require different subversions of ruby, you should always use rvm. it allows you to install multiple versions of ruby side by side.
also, check out https://github.com/tokaido/tokaidoapp
In Ruby 1.8.7 retiredRails.app which is now called Tokaido is not dead, see this:
Kickstart Update: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1397300529/railsapp/post...
Source Code: https://github.com/tokaido/tokaidoapp
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