Setup mac for ruby dev

osx_setup.md

Setup new Mac from scratch

Install Xcode

Installing Xcode and the command line tools need to be done first because it installs gcc. https://developer.apple.com/xcode/features/

Homebrew

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Note that Xcode is a pre-req for Homebrew.

http://brew.sh/

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/wiki/Installation

Install common tools:

brew update
brew install git vim tmux postgresql mysql tree

Set shell to ZSH and install oh-my-zsh

curl -L http://install.ohmyz.sh | sh

rbenv and ruby-build

https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv

brew update
brew install rbenv rbenv-gem-rehash ruby-build

# Install ruby 2.1.2
rbenv install 2.1.2
rbenv global 2.1.2
rbenv rehash

echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc
gem update --system
gem install bundler rails --no-ri --no-rdoc

Faster gem installs

For faster gem install tell rubygems to ignore ri and rdoc creating a ~/.gemrc with:

install: --no-ri --no-rdoc
update: --no-ri --no-rdoc

Apps

Alfred

Alfred is an award-winning productivity application for Mac OS X, which aims to save you time in searching your local computer and the web.

http://www.alfredapp.com/

Dash

Awesome documentation browser.

Dash gives your Mac instant offline access to 150+ API documentation sets.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dash-docs-snippets/id458034879?mt=12

http://kapeli.com/dash

iTerm2

A nice alternative to Terminal.app.

http://www.iterm2.com/

Solarized color scheme

A nice color scheme.

http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized

Pow

Pow is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X.

curl get.pow.cx | sh

To get it to work with Apache check: https://github.com/37signals/pow/wiki/Running-Pow-with-Apache

http://pow.cx/

VLC

VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html