Installing Ruby, Rails, and MySQL on Mac OS X Lion

by on 23. Nov, 2011 in Ruby

This is a quick heads-up! I have a blog post up on the Think Vitamin blog on installing Ruby, Rails, and MySQL on Mac OS X Lion. The instructions will also work on Snow Leopard (sorry Leopard users) and it walks through setting up gcc, homebrew, git, and mysql. It also uses RVM to install the latest release of Ruby. Check it out.

3 Responses to “Installing Ruby, Rails, and MySQL on Mac OS X Lion”

  1. Mislav 23. Nov, 2011 at 10:00 pm #

    RVM not rbenv?
    *faints*

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    • Jason 19. Dec, 2011 at 11:57 am #

      I knew I’d get a comment or two about that :) Here’s my justification: for beginners I thought that rvm was easier to install and required less steps than rbenv.

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      • dcolumbus 20. Jan, 2012 at 12:54 pm #

        Jason, forget easy… it should be taught from the beginning the “proper” way of doing things.

        I’m JUST starting out with RoR, and it’s confusing trying to understand how to even SETUP everything … Ruby, gems, SQLite (or whatever, preferably MySQL for me), whatever server platform (Apache?) … I would like to just start learning the bloody language! :P

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