Re: Setting up your MacBook for ROR

Gregory Seidman
2007-01-22T19:13:41Z

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 05:02:31PM +0100, Chet wrote:
> I am getting my new MacBook today and was wondering if the experts on
> this list might have some tips and pointers about what they do to set up
> their Macs as a RubyonRails dev machine?
>
> I come from a windows background and some of this is essential there.
> But in the case of Macs do you recommend,
>
>  * installing the OS from scratch
>  * adding/removing any default applications from the install
>  * any other system/OS level tuning
>
> I do intend to use the Hivelogic/Geoffrey Grosenbach''s tips to get
the
> Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Mongrel setup done. Suggestions/comments welcome.

I happen to like X11 as an environment for development (editors and shells,
primarily, with various OS X apps for other things) so I installed X11 from
the install DVD. You''ll also need the developer tools (XCode) from the
install DVD so that RubyGems will be able to compile extensions.

I used Fink to install most everything (Ruby executables, my editor, and
various convenient libraries, such as ImageMagick) RubyGems, then installed
RubyGems by hand. From there it was a gem install.

> Thanks.
> Chet
--Greg