This is generally considered a Bad Thing™ and in general, you should at least review what the script is doing before you run it. The instructions that follow run a shell script directly from a web site that you are not in control of. It’s also very good but we’re going to use Homebrew for the purposes of this article.

Homebrew is “The missing package manager for OS X.” The other big package manager available on OS X is called MacPorts. Besides, you’ll probably want to have the full developer tools installed so you can unlock the iOS foundations badge on Treehouse. The instructions that follow should work with only that installed but I haven’t tested it. This doesn’t install the Developer Tools from Apple, only the compiler. This is a large download so go ahead and get some coffee or catch up on the latest meme on Reddit.Īnother option is to use the osx-gcc-installer. Open up the App Store and type “Xcode” in to the search box. Install Developer Toolsīefore we install either Homebrew or rvm, we need to have a compiler installed. Another quick note: while these instructions are written for Lion, they should also work on Snow Leopard, particularly the osx-gcc-installer instructions. Another popular option for getting ruby up and running is ruby-build and rbenv.įor the purposes of getting everything up and running quickly, I find rvm to be a bit easier to use and explain so I’m going to use that. There are several ways of installing a modern Ruby and Rails environment and in the end, they all get you to the same place. This is a bit of an opinionated method of getting everything installed.

We’re going to be using homebrew and rvm to get this all up and running. What’s that? You want to install the latest versions of Ruby, Rails, and MySQL on Lion? Ok, that’s cool, we can do that instead of watching the latest Twilight movie. How have you been? How are things? Things are good here, too. Hi, folks! What’s new? Not much here, either.

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