Installing Rails on Mac OS X with MacPort

Peter Burkholder — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:08:00 -0800

Yesterday I installed Ruby on Rails on my new(-ish) Intel MacBook. Last time around I built with a combination of Fink packages and hand-built applications following this posting at Hivelogic

This time around I’ve been using MacPorts, and it’s making my life much easier. Evan Weaver got me started with his post on building ruby, rails and associated pieces, but enough has changed changed since June 26 to merit my own updated take on the process.

Getting started

As Evan notes, “First, install the Apple Xcode tools from your OS X installation disc”. Please do so.

Next, install a recent version of “MacPorts” (what used to be known as DarwinPorts) from their Subversion respository. Installing from a .dmg file is easiest, then you can let MacPorts upgrade itself later on. As of this writing, Ports 1.3.2 is out, but disk images are only available for 1.3.1, e.g. at DarwinPorts-1.3.1-10.4.dmg

Next, you’ll want to update your executable path so the Ports installations in /opt/local are found before your Apple binaries. You should edit both /etc/profile and your ~/.bashrc (or equivalent if you’re using some other shell. Your path should end up looking something like this:


PATH="/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"

Install the ports

Now open a terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal) and run the following:

sudo port -d selfupdate 
sudo port install lighttpd +ssl 
sudo port install rb-rubygems
sudo port install rb-fcgi
sudo port install mysql4 +server

Set up MySQL

You’ll also need to get mysql4 set up with these commands:

# set up the mysql database:
sudo -u mysql mysql_install_db
# start the server:
sudo /opt/local/bin/mysqld_safe --user=mysql
# set the root password (picking your own password, of course)
/opt/local/bin/mysqladmin -u root password newpassword

If you want Launcher to start MySQL automatically on reboot, you can run the following:


sudo launchclt load -w  \
  /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.macports.mysql4.plist
# stop the server
sudo launchctl stop org.macports.mysql4
# start the server
sudo launchctl start org.macports.mysql4

Install the gems

Running gems with the ‘-y’ option automatically takes care of prerequisites

sudo gem install -y rails
sudo gem install -y capistrano

Test!

First, are you hitting the right version of Ruby? ruby --version should return something like ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i686-darwin8.8.1] not this: ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [universal-darwin8.0]

Next, can you build a Rails application with


cd ~/tmp
rails widgetapp

Okay? Good. Now let’s cd widgetapp and put the database through it’s paces. Save the following code as test_rails_db.sh (or download it here)


#!/bin/sh

echo -n "Enter MySQL root password: " 
read PASSWD

mysqladmin -u root -p$PASSWD create widgetapp_development

cat >db/create.sql <<EOF
DROP table if exists widgets;

CREATE table widgets (
    id  int not null    auto_increment,
    name    varchar(40)  not null,
    description   varchar(100)   not null,
    primary key (id)
    );

INSERT INTO widgets (name, description) VALUES ("Tool", "Useful item");
INSERT INTO widgets (name, description) VALUES ("Food", "Tasty stuff");

EOF

mysql -u root -p$PASSWD  widgetapp_development < db/create.sql

mv config/database.yml config/database.yml.dist

cat >config/database.yml <<EOF 

development:
  adapter: mysql
  database: widgetapp_development
  username: root
  password: $PASSWD
  socket: /opt/local/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

EOF

and run sh ./test_rails_db.sh. Enter your password when prompted.

Now the proof is in the pudding. If the following run s while you’re in your widgetapp rails directory, you’re golden:


script/generate scaffold Widget
script/server

Now browse to http://0.0.0.0:3000/widgets/list and you should utter a little gasp of joy.

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Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:05:37 -0700

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Ellipsis: Installing Rails on Mac OS X with MacPort

Installing Rails on Mac OS X with MacPort

Getting started

Install the ports

Set up MySQL

Install the gems

Test!

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