Setting up the Ruby dev environment on Mavericks

Why would I want to do that?

You want to run guard
You want use Sublime plugins (like RSpec or Guard plugins)

Installing `brew`

Brew aka Homebrew is a package management system for Mac OSX.

Open up the Mac Terminal and run this command to install brew on your mac:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"

Install ruby through `rbenv`

Now that we have Homebrew installed, we can use it to install Ruby.

We're going to use rbenv to install and manage our Ruby versions. rbenv makes it really easy to have several versions of ruby on your laptop and switch between them.

To do this, run the following commands in your Terminal:

brew install rbenv ruby-build

# Add rbenv to bash so that it loads every time you open a terminal
echo 'if which rbenv > /dev/null; then eval "$(rbenv init -)"; fi' >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

# Install Ruby 2.1.1 and set it as the default version
rbenv install 2.1.1
rbenv global 2.1.1

ruby -v
# ruby 2.1.1

Check out this article for a list of rbenv commands: http://cbednarski.com/articles/installing-ruby/

Install rails

Install rails on your system so you can create new rails projects.

gem install rails

Rails is now installed, but in order for us to use the rails executable, we need to tell rbenv to see it:

rbenv rehash

And now we can verify Rails is installed:

rails -v
# Rails 4.1.1

Install the Postgres.app

"The easiest way to run Postgres on your Mac"

http://postgresapp.com/

Install the `pg` gem

Here's how to install the pg gem with Postgres.app. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20224483/cannot-install-pg-gem-in-mavericks-with-postgres-app

gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.3/bin/pg_config

Install the command line developer tools

The nokogiri gem needs these. See here for details: http://jasdeep.ca/2013/10/installing-nokogiri-fails-os-x-mavericks/

xcode-select --install

Install the gems for a Rails project

  cd /Users/monica/lighthouse/laser_shark
  bundle install

Follow the other setup instructions for that rails app. For laser_shark, you will have to edit your /etc/hosts, for example.

Change `database.yml`

In config/database.yml, make sure you have the following settings. Make sure you have the host, the password is blank, and the username is set to your computer's username. If you are not sure what your computer's username is, try running whoami in the terminal.

development:
  adapter: postgresql
  database: your_project_development
  host: localhost
  username: your_mac_user_name  # use whoami in the terminal to see what the user name is
  password:      # leave the password blank
  encoding: unicode
  pool: 5

test:
  adapter: postgresql
  database: your_project_test
  host: localhost
  username: your_mac_user_name  # use whoami in the terminal to see what the user name is
  password:         # leave the password blank
  encoding: unicode
  pool: 5

Here's my database.yml for a rails project called hooligans

development:
  adapter: postgresql
  database: hooligans_development
  host: localhost
  username: monica
  password:
  encoding: unicode
  pool: 5

To check if this works, see if you can create the database.

bin/rake db:create

Help Improve this

I wrote this down from memory. If any of the steps here don't work, please fork this gist, fix the issue and share with the class.

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