You can never have too many.
Much like every new version of OSX, there have been a plethora of "How to install BLANK on Snow Leopard" blog posts and walk-throughs detailing all the little tips and tricks around how to install some tool or piece of software. Having a lot of options is awesome, but in the words of the great Biggie Smalls, "mo' blog posts, mo' problems".
That IS how it went, right?
Anyway, with all of these walk-throughs, how do you know which ones are good, and which one just suck. Well, you don't really...
So here's a list of a few [confirmed] valid and useful dev setup walk-throughs:
First, this is actually a series of posts, as opposed to one single write-up. Actually, its not even a series of posts. Its just the search results for 'Snow Leopard' on the Hive Logic site. So really, its only the first 3-5 posts that matter.
http://hivelogic.com/search/results/a7a831b978f2667fa301ea095d3d8fa7
This is the route that I personally followed after a fresh install of Snow Leopard, and I had everything up and running in no time.
Next, Robby On Rails did a thorough and entertaining post on Snow Leopard Rails dev env setup, or SLRDESU for short. Acronyms make everything better (AMEB). I don't know about you, but Robby's older post about getting setup with Passenger came in handy for me on more than one occasion.
http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2010/02/08/installing-ruby-on-rails-passenger-postgresql-mysql-oh-my-zsh-on-snow-leopard-fourth-edition
His latest post covers everything from start to finish, and he even included a few video to pass the time while waiting for binaries to build and whatnot. I haven't personally used this walk-through, but based on my previous experience with Robby's posts, and the recommendation from coworkers, I'm sure it'll get you where you need to be.
Another noteworthy mention comes from the guys over at Thoughtbot, the makers of such wonderful tools as Shoulda, Paperclip, and Factory Girl. Their robot-laden guide goes beyond just Rails/dev-related stuff, and covers the likes of several generally useful OSX tools. Things like Quicksilver, Fluid, and Firefox/Firebug.
http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/159805668/2009-rubyists-guide-to-a-mac-os-x-development
This is another one that I haven't personally used, but I think we can trust the guys over at Thoughtbot. After all, their company reputation depends on it!
So there you have it. Three different hand-holding recipes for getting you set up on Snow Leopard. If you haven't upgraded yet, what're you waiting for? Get to it!
This is nothing new or monumental, but I thought I'd post it anyway. I recently picked up a new Macbook Pro, and while setting it up for Rails development, I ran into a little issue while installing the mysql gem. I'm sure this little tid-bit is probably posted a million other places on the intarwebs, but one more can't hurt.
So here's the problem. You attempt to run a rake db task, and you get this...
!!! The bundled mysql.rb driver has been removed from Rails 2.2. Please install the mysql gem and try again: gem install mysql.
rake aborted!
no such file to load -- mysql
So you do as it says and attempt to install the gem...
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing mysql:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb install mysql
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lm... yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lz... yes
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lsocket... no
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
checking for main() in -lnsl... no
checking for mysql_query() in -lmysqlclient... no
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers. Check the mkmf.log file for more
details. You may need configuration options.
Provided configuration options:
--with-opt-dir
--without-opt-dir
--with-opt-include
--without-opt-include=${opt-dir}/include
--with-opt-lib
--without-opt-lib=${opt-dir}/lib
--with-make-prog
--without-make-prog
--srcdir=.
--curdir
--ruby=/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby
--with-mysql-config
--without-mysql-config
--with-mysql-dir
--without-mysql-dir
--with-mysql-include
--without-mysql-include=${mysql-dir}/include
--with-mysql-lib
--without-mysql-lib=${mysql-dir}/lib
--with-mysqlclientlib
--without-mysqlclientlib
--with-mlib
--without-mlib
--with-mysqlclientlib
--without-mysqlclientlib
--with-zlib
--without-zlib
--with-mysqlclientlib
--without-mysqlclientlib
--with-socketlib
--without-socketlib
--with-mysqlclientlib
--without-mysqlclientlib
--with-nsllib
--without-nsllib
--with-mysqlclientlib
--without-mysqlclientlib
Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7 for inspection.
Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/mysql-2.7/gem_make.out
Well shit. That didn't work. So here's what you need to do...
sudo gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config
which should yield...
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
Successfully installed mysql-2.7
1 gem installed
Yay.
