Re: Setting up your MacBook for ROR

Peter De Berdt
2007-01-22T16:37:34Z

On 22 Jan 2007, at 17:22, Chet wrote:

> Thanks for the superfast responses, folks. Very helpful.
>
> I was curious to hear if you recommend any additional steps *before* I
> begin the Ruby/Rails/MySQL/Mongrel install. i.e. reinstall the OS from
> scratch, add/remove any utils etc.
>
> There might be a simple *No* answer to this, but coming from a windows
> background, wanted to check if these steps are needed in the Mac world
> specifically for a ROR dev machine.

Then let me be the first to simply say: "No" :-) A Mac
doesn''t come
with a heap of crap applications like some PC suppliers (*ahum* Dell
*ahum*). Should you get into disk space problems, you could remove
GarageBand (and it''s related files in Library > Application Support)
if you don''t use it, but with hard drives nowadays, that probably
won''t be necessary in the first few months :-). You can also skip a
virus scanner and spyware/adware remover, so for the first time in
your life, your portable won''t lose 10% of its processing power just
to keep your mind at ease.

I can recommend you some of my Mac favorites:
• TextMate (the must have Rails editor if you are on a Mac)
• QuickSilver (http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/)
• iTerm (Terminal with some extra nifty features)
• Transmit ((S)FTP)
• Vienna (RSS reader)
• Adium (Instant Messaging)

If you want to find these apps, check out http://www.versiontracker.com/

Best regards

Peter De Berdt


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