Setting up Ruby on Rails on Max OS X 10.6.2 Snow LeopardEdit

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Note: These build notes were made while working with a late-2009 (64-bit) iMac, and as such are specific to a 64-bit architecture. For notes made building on a 32-bit platform see "Setting up Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard".

Pre-installed pieces

Mac OS X Snow Leopard already comes with some of the basic required pieces, such as RubyGems, Ruby and Rails itself.

I began by updating two of these pieces to the latest versions:

$ sudo gem update --system # update from version 1.3.1 to 1.3.6
$ sudo gem install rails # update from version 2.2.2 to 2.3.5

Other requirements

My deployment target uses nginx, memcached and MySQL, so I install each of those on my local machine as well:

Application-level preparation

Once all the requisite pieces are installed we just need to prime the database and we are back in action:

$ rake db:create:all
$ rake db:migrate:all