Handbrake’s pretty easy to use (after you know how to use it) but RipIt makes ripping a DVD to your Mac about as easy it can possibly be.
After you start the program, this is the screen that will appear:

After the DVD is inserted into your Mac’s superdrive, you’ll have all of two (2) options.
Both are pretty self-explantory:

Here I’m selecting the “Movies” folder on my Seagate external hard drive:

Rip in progress:

All done:

You can double-click the ripped DVD to play it:

Here’s the menu for the ‘ripped’ DVD playing in the Apple DVD player:

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