Reinstalled Mac OSX (Tiger)

Posted by tom February 18th, 2006

Tonight I have reinstalled Mac OSX 10.4 (Tiger) within the hour. I’m now again up and running with a full development environment.

  • Ruby on Rails
    Tony Arnold has a very good story on how to get Ruby on Rails on Mac OSX. He also has a very good installer package which is in fact a point-and-click install.
  • PHP 5
    Marc Liyanage has point-and-click install for PHP5 on his website. He has more interesting software for Mac OSX!
  • MySQL 5
    MySQL can be obtained from the MySQL website over here
  • Others
    Other things you might need like cvs, Apache etc are already installed with installing the XCode Tools which come with OSX
Of yeah and you might want to do: 
sudo gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql
Otherwise connecting to mysql with Rails won’t work.

And for a shameless Apple plug: All in all a VERY good development plaftorm: Mac OSX 10.4 (Tiger)!

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