I’ve got a bash script I put together a while back for installing the entire Ruby on Rails development stack on an intel based Mac*. I just made some updates that fully automate the process (including selection of platform specific gems).
The nice part is you get prompted for which components you want to install:
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$ sudo ./rails-dev-stack-x86.sh
Checking for X11... OK
Checking for GCC... OK
Install Ruby? y
Install Ruby on Rails? y
Install Mongrel? y
Install FastCGI?n
Install Lighttpd w. OpenSSL?n
Install ImageMagick and RMagick? y
Install Subversion? y
Install SQLite? n
Install MySQL? y
Append paths to .bash_profile? y
Go take a break. This is going to take a while...
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Naturally, it’s largely based on the Dan Benjamin’s Guide as well as a few others noted in the script’s preamble. I use it on every machine I need to get setup on, so I try to keep it updated. I’ve been using it for a couple months now, and I thought it was time to share.
- I think the only processor specific bit might be MySQL installation.
You know, I’m glad you posted this when you did. I had to do some spring cleaning on my laptop (read: reformat) and this got me back up to speed.
Danke!
Did you run into any bugs? Sometimes I goof the directory changes when making edits.
Instead of ruby 1.8.6, I went with ruby 1.8.5. I didn’t use the whole thing however. I put swig ahead of subversion so that I could do a
make swig-rb && make install-swig-rb. I also did not run all of the steps. I am going to probably do the ImageMagick one today.I needed to rollback to 1.8.5 as well, I might put an option in there to install either. I might take you lead on swig as well, so I can install the ruby svn stuff.