Part 2: How to install Rails and MySQL in Mavericks OSX

[Continued from Part 1: How to install Rails and MySQL in Mavericks OSX]

In Part 1, we installed Xcode, Homebrew, RVM, MySQL, and upgraded to the latest stable release of Ruby.

In Part 2, we install Git, Github, Gems, and Rails.

Install and configure Git

brew install git

I followed my Git notes here


Github


Generate SSH keys

While following the guide above, I set up a repository at Github called project1 to match the local repository I had previously initialized.  The only purpose of "project1" was to set up and test Github connectivity.

Set up GitHub repository

cd to the project1 subdirectory and run the following commands:

touch hello.txt
git init
git add .
git commit -m "first commit"
git remote add origin git@github.com:<yourusername>/project1.git
git push -u origin master

Now that we know we can push to Github, we can remove the test files.  Remove project1 from both the local host and Github.

Gems


rvm install ruby
rvm use ruby --default
rvm rubygems current

This bumped me up to Ruby 2.1.0 and installed rubygems (among other things).

Rails

And - FINALLY - install Rails:

gem install rails