/development-environment-setup

Set up a dev environment

Setting Up a Dev Environment for Ruby on Rails on Mac OSx

Preparing for Ruby

  • Get a Github account

http://www.github.com

  • Install XCode

https://developer.apple.com/xcode/

  • Install Command Line Tools for Xcode
  • Install Homebrew

http://brew.sh/

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

brew update

  • Install Git

brew install git

  • Install Rbenv and Ruby-build

brew install rbenv ruby-build echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile source ~/.bash_profile

rbenv install 1.9.3-p448 && rbenv global 1.9.3-p448 rbenv rehash

  • Install Bundler

gem install bundler rbenv rehash

  • Install Postgres

brew install postgresql initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8 ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/postgresql/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist

echo "alias pg='pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log'" >> ~/.bash_profile source ~/.bash_profile pg start

  • Install a text Editor

  • install Sublime Text 2: http://www.sublimetext.com/

  • make and install TextMate (I'm not helping you with this...someone else can make the tutorial...it was a pain in the ass for me)

  • Install SourceTree for graphical Git management

http://www.sourcetreeapp.com/

Setting Up a Dev Environment for Ruby on Rails on Linux (Debian based)

Preparing for Ruby

  • Get a Github account

http://www.github.com

Bash Instructions

Install Dependencies:

apt-get update
apt-get install git build-essential zlib1g-dev libreadline-dev libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libxslt-dev libxml2-dev

Install Rbenv and Ruby-build:

git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
git clone https://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

rbenv install 1.9.3-p448 && rbenv global 1.9.3-p448
rbenv rehash

Clone Site Repo:

git clone https://github.com/Dominus-Development/site.git

cd site
gem install bundler
rbenv rehash
bundle install
cp config/environment_variables.yml.sample config/environment_variables.yml
nano environment_variables.yml
  • Install a text Editor
  • install Sublime Text 2: http://www.sublimetext.com/
  • make and install TextMate (I'm not helping you with this...someone else can make the tutorial...it was a pain in the ass for me)