How to setup your Mac for RoR development
1) Developer tools – install Xcode
2) Package manager homebrew
We will install homebrew + some common packages (git, ImageMagick, PostgreSQL, …) into /usr/local and take ownership over directory. This way we will not need to use sudo and all binaries will be in our $PATH (because /usr/local/bin is by default).
sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local ruby -e "$(curl -fsS http://gist.github.com/raw/323731/install_homebrew.rb)" brew install wget git postgresql sqlite imagemagick
To initialize a database cluster for PostgreSQL use initdb /usr/local/var/postgres.
(it will be owned by your user, again, it should not be problem)
3) Ruby version manager – rvm
RVM allows you to have multiple rubies (1.8.7, 1.9.2, jruby, ..) in parallel. It installs everything into your home directory, so again, you can forget about sudo and messing with $PATH variable. Run as normal user:
bash < <( curl http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/releases/rvm-install-head ) echo 'if [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] ; then source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ; fi' >> .bashrc
Open new tab in terminal and rvm should work (be sure your .bash_profile contains source $HOME/.bashrc).
Now you can install last ruby 1.8.7 and set it as default:
rvm install 1.8.7 rvm use 1.8.7 --default gem install bundler rails capistrano unicorn
Additional ruby interprets can be installed such as:
rvm install 1.9.2 rvm use 1.9.2
4) Git GUI and text editor
5) You are all set
I would suggest using bundler for managing your project gems (even on RoR 2.3.x). Than just cd PROJECT_PATH; bundle install and ejoy simple management of rubies and packages via rvm and homebrew.
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