Setting up PostgreSQL for Ruby on Rails development on OS X

https://willj.net/2011/05/31/setting-up-postgresql-for-ruby-on-rails-development-on-os-x/#

by wlll • 15 years ago

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wlll4• 15 years ago

If anyone has any questions about the process, or gets stuck leave them as comments on my post, I'll help out where I can.

telemachos3• 15 years ago

It looks like a great overview. One thought: you might mention Lunchy (https://github.com/mperham/lunchy) as a nice Ruby-friendly way to manage the not-so-nice, not-so-friendly launchctl business.

listrophy• 15 years ago

Great guide, even if one completely ignores the RoR part.

wlll4• 15 years ago

Thanks for the comment, that's great to hear!

techscruggs2• 15 years ago

With the advent of Homebrew, why would manually compile from source for your local dev environment?

wlll4• 15 years ago

My article suggests and assumes you are using Homebrew.

techscruggs2• 15 years ago

Crap, my apologies, I obviously skimmed that article as opposed to reading it. mea culpa

pilif• 15 years ago

Why not just use the one-click-installer? http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdow... it neatly creates a system user if needed, modifies sysctl.conf (for shmmax) and installs a few items in the Application folder for quickly starting and stopping the server.

telemachos3• 15 years ago

The article mentions the Postgres installer, but mostly assumes the reader uses Homebrew (MacPorts is mentioned at the bottom as well). I have no way to get real numbers, but given Homebrew's overall popularity on Github, I suspect that assumption is a good bet for a very large number of Rails developers on OSX.

Once you choose a package manager, it tends to be easier to always use that, rather than use one-off binary installers. (In fact, the one-off binary installers can lead to known permissions problems when it comes to Homebrew specifically.)

technomancy• 15 years ago

I'm just gonna leave this right here... http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/11/11/installing-mysql...

wlll4• 15 years ago

Seems irrelevant…

telemachos3• 15 years ago

Read the whole post in the link (or skim it at least).

I'm pretty sure that Technomancy is indirectly making a point about Apple's lack of a package manager. Something like this, I'm guessing: http://teddziuba.com/2011/03/osx-unsuitable-web-development.... (the part about package management, that is).

Note for both pro- and anti-Mac folks. I'm simply trying to show how the grandparent post is relevant - why it's here. I'm not stating an opinion one way or the other on anything else.

chopsueyar2• 15 years ago

Virtual machine!!!

roelbondoc• 15 years ago

I agree. Developing on Ubuntu on a VM has been a great experience for me so far. It seems much less painful to develop on a platform that is similar to where you will be deploying.

chopsueyar2• 15 years ago

When I first read the headline, I immediately wondered who was deploying to a production OS X server with PostgreSQL.

Setting up PostgreSQL for Ruby on Rails development on OS X

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