Mac Configuration

Dev Stack

• Ruby (see Ruby and Rails for more)
• Ruby on Rails (see Ruby and Rails for more)
• Phusion Passenger
• Apache2
• MySQL (5.1.30)
• Git
• Capistrano

Ruby/Rails/MySQL setup

Following the instructions at Dan Benjamin's blog

Used this to roll both ruby 1.8.x and ruby 1.9.x (didn't install any pre-reqs)

# starting and stoping MySQL  
sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start
sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server stop

Key Gems installed

• Mongrel
• Capistrano
• Phusion-Passenger

Passenger Setup

Primarily used the screencast by Ryan Bates.  Also as per this blog post I put my virtual home info into /etc/apache2/users/mndoci.conf. 

Another blog post I used to set up passenger

The following was put into /etc/apache2/users/mndoci.conf (this is the old version.  Have a new version of passenger now)

LoadModule passenger_module /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.0.5/ext/apache2/mod_passenger.so
PassengerRoot /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/passenger-2.0.5
PassengerRuby /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby

 The Passenger PrefPane is great.  Key is to point to project roots and not to the 'Public' directory in a Rails app.

Works like a charm.  I don't use the default "Sites" folder, but rather point to my own dev directory.

For Rails apps, don't forget to point to the Public folder in the Rails directory tree