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"