I recently did a clean installation of Snow Leopard, which is great by the way, and I ran into some issues after installing MySQL and Ruby on Rails based on the instructions from Dan Benjamin at Hivelogic.
Specifically, when I would try to access a site in development mode I would get an error from Passenger that “Rails 2.3.4 could not be found”. I also noticed that on reboot my PATH wasn’t being loaded properly either so the system could not find MySql, Ruby, or RubyGems.
I tried placing the path information that, according to the instructions goes in ~/.profile into my ~/.bash_profile.
Now when I restart the system, MySQL and Ruby on Rail can be found! Passenger is working now as well. I am not sure if there was a change in the way Snow Leopard loads bash profiles or if there is just a problem with my installation that was preventing it from working when the PATH was specified in ~/.profile, but it’s all working now so hopefully this will help someone else.
