Dev setup on apple silicon

[rsanheim]

Going to document some things here to get a working dev setup on m1 Macs with as much native ARM as possible:

Note: Everything will just work with Rosetta, which is the current recommended way of doing things until blocker(s) below are fixed.

Working

All the following work fine with a native ARM homebrew install:

• redis
• postgres@10
• yarn / node
• rbenv
• ruby (though see blockers below)

blockers

• The current problem is that we use the http gem relies on a parser that does not work on m1 Macs and sounds like it may be a heavy lift to replace -- see httprb/http#630 and httprb/http#639 for context.

References

• dual home-brew setup - helpful post by Sam Soffes
• https://forem.dev/joshpuetz/getting-forem-running-on-apple-silicon-pdp

[rsanheim]

This is all fixed now with the http gem update. I’ve been able to use a fully ARM native build for ruby and all dependencies.