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My Mac Development Setup

From powering on a new mac to ready to develop, here's my setup:

Install Dropbox and make symbolic links to all my dot files, .vim,  .vimrc, .zshrc, etc

Install SIMBL

Install a nice, easy to read terminal theme such as this one:

Install XCode

Install Homebrew

    brew install git

    brew install macvim

    brew install mysql

    brew install ack

    brew install imagemagick

install rvm with:

install Ruby Enterprise Edition with 

    rvm install ree

    rvm use default

    sudo gem install livereload # this uses some rubycocoa libraries that aren't in Ruby Enterprise Edition
    sudo gem install compass

    rvm use ree

    gem install rails
    gem install mysqlplus
    gem install compass
    gem install activerecord-sqlserver-adapter
    gem install unicorn