Re: Setting up your MacBook for ROR

Robby Russell
2007-01-22T17:26:29Z

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.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Chet
>

This is how we setup our laptops at PLANET ARGON... just we use
PostgreSQL not MySQL... but the rest should be helpful to you.

* http://rubyurl.com/TwL

Good luck!

Cheers,

Robby

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Robby Russell