Newbie: Set-up RoR dev environment on Mac os x Mavericks is painful

5 points by saamirz 12y ago ↗ HN

So far I have been relying on Codeschool's in browser interface to learn rails..now time has come that I work on a personal project on my mac. Pls suggest some resources for setting up Ruby on Rails dev environment on Mac os x Mavericks without much hassle..

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Seich 12y ago ↗

This will guide you through the process: http://installrails.com/

csmattryder 12y ago ↗

Use something like RVM [1] to get the base Ruby system in place, then install the Rails gem and you're good to go. If you'd rather do it all in one, RVM will install Rails for you during setup if you include the '--rails' flag.

[1] https://rvm.io/

mcansky 12y ago ↗

One good ruby shop (Thoughtbot) has published several articles on this topic. And they released their script to handle this : https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop.

Boxen is another way to prepare and setup your machines for work. There are other alternatives.

dshapiraa 12y ago ↗

I like this setup guide for a rails dev environment: https://github.com/red-green-refactor/osx-fresh-install

mikelyons 12y ago ↗

Without much hassle ... (welcome to development :)