osx-dev.md

How to setup OSX dev environment

Install from App Store

• Xcode

Install from web

• Terminal http://www.iterm2.com/
• Heroku https://toolbelt.heroku.com/
• NodeJS http://nodejs.org/download/
• Code editor http://www.lighttable.com/
• Postgres http://postgresapp.com/

Site content management tool

Open Terminal. Paste these commands:

sudo su -
gem update --system
gem install jekyll jekyll-contentblocks -V

# from site folder
jekyll serve --watch
# now browse to http://localhost:4000

Misc

Forward port 5000 to port 80

sudo ipfw add 100 fwd 127.0.0.1,5000 tcp from any to any 80 in

bash

nano ~/.bash_profile 

# copy-paste these
alias l="ls -al"
alias dm="du -m -d 1"

export EDITOR=nano

export PATH="/Applications/Postgres93.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/:$PATH"