Installing REE using RVM on Mac OS X

Using Ruby Enterprise Edition with RVM

* Install RVM

zsh < <( curl http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/releases/rvm-install-head )

rvm update --head

* Install Readline package

rvm package install readline

* Install Ruby Enterprise Edition

rvm install ree --enable-shared --with-readline-dir=$HOME/.rvm/usr --patch readline-fix

* Switch over to new RVM install 

rvm use [ree version number here]

* Install RubyCocoa (version 1.0.1 is broken at this time - see: http://gist.github.com/330254)

wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/rubycocoa/files/RubyCocoa/1.0.0/RubyCocoa-1.0.0.tar.gz/download

tar xzf RubyCocoa-1.0.0.tar.gz && rm RubyCocoa-1.0.0.tar.gz && cd RubyCocoa-1.0.0

ruby install.rb config --build-universal=yes
ruby install.rb setup
sudo ruby install.rb install

* Install Base Global Gems

NOTE: Do not use sudo when installing gems in an rvm'd environment

gem install bundler
gem install capistrano
gem install capistrano-ext
gem install git_remote_branch
gem install open_gem
gem install heroku
gem install passenger

* Update Apache

passenger-install-apache2-module

* Configure Apache

* Rename your passenger configuration file:

cp /private/etc/apache2/other/passenger.conf /private/etc/apache2/other/passenger.orig

* Open the passenger.conf file in your favorite editor. Since this file is owned by root, you'll need to provide your password to save it.

Change the top 3 lines to something like this:

LoadModule passenger_module /Users/carlos/.rvm/gems/ree-1.8.7-2010.02@global/gems/passenger-3.0.0/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /Users/carlos/.rvm/gems/ree-1.8.7-2010.02@global/gems/passenger-3.0.0
PassengerRuby /Users/carlos/.rvm/wrappers/ree-1.8.7-2010.02@global/ruby

* Restart Apache and Passenger

If you open a new terminal tab, you'll have to change your Ruby to REE: rvm ree-1.8.7-2010.01

You can also set REE to default using:

rvm [ree version number here] --default