My New Mac Mini

I’ll be using my new Mac Mini specifically for web development work and not much else… Okay, maybe for surfing the net and downloading new music with this monstrous 500 GB hard drive!

First things first, software setup.

GUI

  • TextMate - Text Editor
  • Billings - Project mgmt, time keeping, invoice system, etc…

Terminal

  • Homebrew - Beer themed packaging system! Similar to MacPorts and Debian’s apt-get
  • Rubygems - Ruby lang packages

Ruby Gems

  • Rails - Ruby based web dev framework
  • Haml & Sass - HTML & CSS editing made right.
  • Compass - Does a lot of things, but I use it to convert sass to css in real time.
  • Sinatra - For effortless Ruby web dev, haven’t used it yet… but I certainly intend to.