Re: Setting up your MacBook for ROR

Philip Hallstrom
2007-01-22T20:08:01Z

> 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.

This is an updated "version" of Hivelogic''s instructions, but
uses Mongrel
instead of Lighttpd, adds in rmagick and memcache, etc...

It''s 99% copy paste too which is nice :)