Installing Cassandra on Mac OS X
================================

Install Homebrew
----------------
Homebrew is a great little package manager for OS X. If you haven't already, installing it is pretty easy:
```
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"
```

Install Python
--------------
Mac OS X has a copy of Python preinstalled, but this makes sure you get the newest version.
```
brew install python
```

Install cql
-----------
To use cqlsh, the Cassandra query language shell, you need to install cql:
```
pip install cql
```

Install Cassandra
-----------------
This installs Apache Cassandra:
```
brew install cassandra
```

Starting/Stopping Cassandra
---------------------------
Use this command to start:
```
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.cassandra.plist
```
user this command to stop:
```
launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.cassandra.plist
```

On Mavericks, Homebrew failed to move the plist file into LaunchAgents. Which gives this error message:
```
launchctl: Couldn't stat("/Users/MNCH/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.cassandra.plist"): No such file or directory
```

To fix this just issue the following command. Then, try using the ```launchctl load``` command again:
```
cp /usr/local/Cellar/cassandra/homebrew.mxcl.cassandra.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
```

Cassandra file locations
------------------------
Properties: /usr/local/etc/cassandra
Logs: /usr/local/var/log/cassandra
Data: /usr/local/var/lib/cassandra/data

Have fun with Cassandra!