I have taken the plunge and started my self-guided exploration of Ruby and the Rails framework. 
I was happy to discover that Ruby, Rails2.0, Mongrel, sqlite3, and subversion is already integrated into Leopard. Then I discovered that all of the published tutorials are based around Rails 1.2! There is virtually no tutorial information out there on Rails 2.0 aside from a few screen-casts going over some of the new features. Consequently, I downloaded and installed Locomotive for a rails 1.2 stack for me to learn on before moving on to rails2.0.
I also loaded MySQL on leopard by using the Tiger version. And yes, the problem with the non-functioning preference panel has been fixed. A new preference panel can be downloaded separately, until an official leopard version of MySQL is released.

So, far I am still getting the hang of migrations & scaffolding: the sexy part of rails. So far, I am very impressed!

I’ll be making progress reports as I go along.

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