How to setup a new mac for Ruby on Rails development with MongoDB, Imagemagick and POW

Makre sure your home directory does not have a space in it or gcc will crap itself

1. Download and install Xcode

2. Install Command Line Tools (Xcode > Preference > Downloads)

3. Install Homebrew[http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/]

4. Install Git

$ brew install git $ cd $ git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git .rbenv $ echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_login $ echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_login

5. Install ruby-build

$ mkdir -p ~/.rbenv/plugins $ cd ~/.rbenv/plugins $ git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git

6. Install Ruby 1.9.3

$ rbenv install 1.9.3-p392

7. Set 1.9.3 as global

$ rbenv global 1.9.3-p392 $ rbenv shell 1.9.3-p392

8. Update to latest rubygems version

$ gem update --system

9. Install rdoc

$ sudo gem install rdoc

10. Install rails

$ sudo gem install rails

11. Install bundler

$ sudo gem install bundler

12. Install postgres

$ sudo gem install pg

13. Install Heroku toolbelt

$ brew install heroku-toolbelt

14. Install Quartz[http://xquartz.macosforge.org/downloads/SL/XQuartz-2.7.4.dmg]

15. Install MongoDB

$ brew install mongodb $ mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents $ cp /usr/local/Cellar/mongodb/2.2.2-x86_64/homebrew.mxcl.mongodb.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ $ launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mongodb.plist

16. Install imagemagick

$ brew install imagemagick

17. Install POW

$ curl get.pow.cx | sh $ cd ~/.pow $ ln -s ~/Sites/storyberg

If POW loads the wrong ruby version you might have to add the following to ~/.powconfig export PATH="/usr/local/Cellar/rbenv/0.3.0/bin:/Users/micdijkstra/.rbenv/shims:/Users/micdijkstra/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"

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