appleton · December 16, 2011 16:05 · Dec 3, 2009 · Dec 3, 2009
diff --git a/coding-rails-with-homebrew.mkdn b/coding-rails-with-homebrew.mkdn
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ the time.
     $ curl -L http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | tar xz --strip 1 -C /usr/local
 
 WARNING: This should not destroy anything already in /usr/local, but you may
-have to fix their permissions. In particular, MySQL is particular about being
-owned by `mysql:mysql`.
+have to fix their permissions. In particular, MySQL is picky about being owned
+by `mysql:mysql`.
 
 For good measure, let's install the latest version of git, just to make sure
 everything is working.

diff --git a/coding-rails-with-homebrew.mkdn b/coding-rails-with-homebrew.mkdn
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+Coding Rails with Homebrew
+==========================
+
+Right now, this assumes you are using Snow Leopard.
+
+Install Homebrew
+----------------
+
+Homebrew is MacPorts (or APT) without the suck. http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew
+
+First, you want to make sure you have the very latest version of XCode. The
+version on the DVD has bugs. Go download and install from
+
+    http://developer.apple.com/technology/xcode.html
+
+Now you can grab homebrew. We'll install to `/usr/local` because lots of things
+look there by default. Homebrew will work from anywhere (eg, `~/homebrew`), but
+other libraries (specifically RubyGems) may not be able to find the things it
+installs. Also, let's chown that directory so we don't have to use `sudo` all
+the time.
+
+    $ sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local
+    $ curl -L http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master | tar xz --strip 1 -C /usr/local
+
+WARNING: This should not destroy anything already in /usr/local, but you may
+have to fix their permissions. In particular, MySQL is particular about being
+owned by `mysql:mysql`.
+
+For good measure, let's install the latest version of git, just to make sure
+everything is working.
+
+    $ brew install git
+    ...downloading/installing...
+    $ git --version
+    git version 1.6.5.3
+
+Install RVM
+-----------
+
+Although Snow Leopard comes with Ruby 1.8.7 preinstalled, sooner or later you'll
+want to have multiple versions of Ruby on your machine. Let's just bite the
+bullet now and setup RVM (Ruby Version Manager) to handle this for us. If you're
+really convinced that the system Ruby is okay, you can skip this part.
+
+RVM installs everything (itself, ruby, gems, etc) to `~/.rvm` and it comes with
+a simple bootstrap script:
+
+    $ cd ~/src # or wherever
+    $ git clone git://github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm.git
+    $ cd rvm && ./install
+
+Because Snow Leopard is all 64-bit, we need to tell RVM to be sure to build
+things as 64-bit:
+
+    $ echo 'rvm_archflags="-arch x86_64"' >> ~/.rvmrc
+
+After starting a new Terminal window, you should now be able to run `rvm` and
+get the help text. Let's install the latest version of Ruby 1.8.7 and set it to
+be the default:
+
+    $ rvm install 1.8.7
+    ...downloading/installing...
+    $ rvm use 1.8.7 --default
+
+Install Rails
+-------------
+
+Rails is a simple gem install. Note that because RVM keeps things inside
+`~/.rvm`, we don't have to use `sudo`. We'll also grab the bundler gem, which we
+will use later to unpack the gems we bundle within our applications.
+
+    $ gem install rails bundler
+
+Install MySQL
+-------------
+
+You could just run things on SQLite, but chances are that sooner or later you're
+going to find yourself writing some MySQL-specific code or facing an obscure bug
+where the production DB (MySQL) isn't behaving the same as your local DB
+(SQLite). Instead, let's just go ahead and install MySQL now.
+
+    $ brew install mysql
+
+This one will take a while, so go get a coffee or something. Once it's finished,
+do like it says an run
+
+    $ mysql_install_db
+    $ launchctl load -w /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.1.41/com.mysql.mysqld.plist
+
+You'll have to create user accounts and such if you want them. I assume you know
+how SQL works.