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The Ultimate OS X Snow Leopard Stack For Rails Development

25 points by fogus 17y ago

PStamatiou 17y ago
I recently re-did my entire rails dev stack when i upgraded to 10.6. and I made the point of avoiding MacPorts this time around. It always ended up being a hassle for me. these proved handy: http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-mysql-on-snow-leopard/ http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-mysql-on-snow-leopar... http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-ruby-rubygems-and-rails-on-snow-leopard/ http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-ruby-rubygems-and-ra... http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-git-on-snow-leopard/ http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-git-on-snow-leopard/
masklinn 17y ago
> Open up your MacPorts config file located at /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf. Around line 59, find the section that has the build_arch and set it to x86_64. You don't need to. Here's the default value: # CPU architecture to compile for. Defaults to i386 or ppc on Mac OS X 10.5 # and earlier, depending on the CPU type detected at runtime. On Mac OS X 10.6 # the default is x86_64 if the CPU supports it, i386 otherwise. #build_arch i386 Note the comment: if your CPU supports it, the default build_arch will be x86_64 anyway.
gcv 17y ago
That was worth clicking through just to learn about Homebrew (http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew). Not sure I'll be leaving MacPorts for it, but it's good to know alternatives exist (and no, fink doesn't count).
- tvon 17y ago
  I've been using Homebrew for about a week. It reminds me of the early days of Gentoo, a very simple system that makes it easy to add your own packages (which is good because the current selection is fairly slim compared to the alternatives). It's basically a nice way to manage locally complied packages, but it doesn't do a lot for you. For example, once you install MySQL you'll have to do any post setup yourself, like adding a mysql user, creating the initial database and setting it to start on boot.
- sant0sk1 17y ago
  Yah homebrew looks really cool. I'm pretty happy with MacPorts (except for its lack of speed sometimes), but will be keeping my eye on homebrew for sure.
sant0sk1 17y ago
This guide is very "SQL Server"-centric, which I would imagine won't be of too much interest to many Rails devs. Still, for those working with SQL Server, it is very good.

25 points by fogus 17y ago

I recently re-did my entire rails dev stack when i upgraded to 10.6. and I made the point of avoiding MacPorts this time around. It always ended up being a hassle for me. these proved handy: http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-mysql-on-snow-leopard/ http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-mysql-on-snow-leopar... http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-ruby-rubygems-and-rails-on-snow-leopard/ http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-ruby-rubygems-and-ra... http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-git-on-snow-leopard/ http://hivelogic.com/articles/compiling-git-on-snow-leopard/

masklinn 17y ago

> Open up your MacPorts config file located at /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf. Around line 59, find the section that has the build_arch and set it to x86_64. You don't need to. Here's the default value: # CPU architecture to compile for. Defaults to i386 or ppc on Mac OS X 10.5 # and earlier, depending on the CPU type detected at runtime. On Mac OS X 10.6 # the default is x86_64 if the CPU supports it, i386 otherwise. #build_arch i386 Note the comment: if your CPU supports it, the default build_arch will be x86_64 anyway.

gcv 17y ago

That was worth clicking through just to learn about Homebrew (http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew). Not sure I'll be leaving MacPorts for it, but it's good to know alternatives exist (and no, fink doesn't count).

tvon 17y ago
I've been using Homebrew for about a week. It reminds me of the early days of Gentoo, a very simple system that makes it easy to add your own packages (which is good because the current selection is fairly slim compared to the alternatives). It's basically a nice way to manage locally complied packages, but it doesn't do a lot for you. For example, once you install MySQL you'll have to do any post setup yourself, like adding a mysql user, creating the initial database and setting it to start on boot.
sant0sk1 17y ago
Yah homebrew looks really cool. I'm pretty happy with MacPorts (except for its lack of speed sometimes), but will be keeping my eye on homebrew for sure.

sant0sk1 17y ago

This guide is very "SQL Server"-centric, which I would imagine won't be of too much interest to many Rails devs. Still, for those working with SQL Server, it is very good.