An alternative approach to installing Drake on Mac OS X

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# I bumped into some problems installing Drake ( https://github.com/Factual/drake ) on OSX, so here's what I did:

# 1. Follow the installation instructions here up through "Run Drake from the uberjar":
# https://github.com/Factual/drake/blob/251a22b27b5ded1fff522f39f06d3e06c77daf74/README.md
# (This is the specific README version I used.)

# 2. Move the 'drake' directory to Applications:
mv drake/ ~/Applications/

# 3. Install Drip ( https://github.com/flatland/drip ) for speedier load time.
brew install drip
# (If you don't want to use Homebrew, install another way per Drip's README.)

# 4. Add the below line to your .bashrc or .zshrc file:
alias drake='drip -jar ~/Applications/drake/target/drake.jar'

# 5. Then refresh your rc file:
source ~/.zshrc  
# or
source ~/.bashrc

# 6. Then test it out!
drake --version

# If you run into problems, feel free to comment here or on Twitter (@allafarce).