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Installing Ruby on Rails is one of the hardest things for a newbie to Ruby and Ruby on Rails. Rails is an open source project with lots of dependencies which makes great strength for Rails and allows it to initiate quickly, but it has the drawback of making a developer pass through lots of difficulties in installing ruby on rails, particularly for someone new to programming or new to the MAC world.
I had to modify some of the instructions over the tutorial of installing Ruby on Rails on different Macs with different versions of OS X and XCode. Here is what worked for me on Mountain Lion and XCode 4.x.x. But first lets familiar with a couple of terms.
- XCode is Apple’s iOS & Mac Apps development environment, but it includes some system libraries that you need for installing Ruby on Rails.
- RVM (Ruby Version Manager) is highly recommended as it lets you manage different versions of Ruby, Rails and Gems so you can try out new versions or mimic different production environments without having to install/reinstall everything.
- Homebrew is a package environment for OS X that can install most other missing system packages you’ll need for installing Ruby on Rails.
Installing Ruby on Rails
Installing XCode:
- Click and install XCode from the Mac Store
- Once installed, go to Preferences -> Downloads -> Install Command Line Tools
Please note that the next several installation commands should be run in the Terminal application.
Install Homebrew and apple-gcc42
This installs the Homebrew package manager and a GCC compiler
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$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)" $ brew tap homebrew/dupes $ brew install apple-gcc42 $ sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/gcc-4.2 /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 |
Install RVM:
In the OS X Terminal, issue the following commands:
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$ \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby |
Note: run the source command outputted from the above command
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$ rvm install 1.9.3 $ rvm use 1.9.3 $ rvm --default 1.9.3 |
The above commands install RVM, install ruby version 1.9.3, tell RVM to use the 1.9.3 version for the rest of the stuff you’ll install and set 1.9.3 to be default going forward.
Install XQuartz
NOTE: This step is optional and is only necessary if you plan to do image manipulation using ImageMagick.
Apple no longer ships an X Windowing system starting with Mountain Lion, so you’ll probably need to install the open sourced version of this available at http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/
Install Rails
Get Ready for most important step of installing Ruby on Rails. to do that you just have to type following command on terminal.
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$ sudo gem install rails |
Rails should now be installed. To create a test app, run
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$ rails new my_app_name |
If you get an error about OpenSSL support, you may need to update RVM. See the instructions at https://rvm.io/packages/openssl
Optional: MySQL
MySQL is a popular open source database that you may want to install locally to make sure that it behaves the same as your production instance of MySQL (if that’s what you’re running). Rails abstracts a lot of the different database differences to your app, but you still may want to actually run MySQL just to have the added confidence that there aren’t any subtle quirks/differences.
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$ brew install mysql $ unset TMPDIR $ mysql_install_db --verbose --user=`whoami` --basedir="$(brew --prefix mysql)" --datadir=/usr/local/var/mysql --tmpdir=/tmp $ mysql.server start $ /usr/local/opt/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -u root password '[[[YOUR_ROOT_PASSWORD_HERE]]' |
If you want to have MySQL start automatically when your Mac logs in, you can set it up like this:
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$ mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents $ cp /usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.5.27/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ $ launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.mysql.plist |
Optional: ImageMagick
- I had to do some basic image manipulation in my app (resizing photos, etc) and I had to install the ImageMagick package through homebrew to get it working.
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$ brew uninstall imagemagick $ brew install --fresh imagemagick |
Done! I had to try a lot of combinations to get it working on my laptop. hopefully this helps as most of the online resources I found were out of date for Mountain Lion or the newest version of XCode.
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