I am getting my new MacBook today and was wondering if the experts on this list might have some tips and pointers about what they do to set up their Macs as a RubyonRails dev machine?
I come from a windows background and some of this is essential there. But in the case of Macs do you recommend,
* installing the OS from scratch * adding/removing any default applications from the install * any other system/OS level tuning
I do intend to use the Hivelogic/Geoffrey Grosenbach's tips to get the Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Mongrel setup done. Suggestions/comments welcome.
I happen to like X11 as an environment for development (editors and shells, primarily, with various OS X apps for other things) so I installed X11 from the install DVD. You'll also need the developer tools (XCode) from the install DVD so that RubyGems will be able to compile extensions.
I used Fink to install most everything (Ruby executables, my editor, and various convenient libraries, such as ImageMagick) RubyGems, then installed RubyGems by hand. From there it was a gem install.
Thanks. Chet
--Greg
