For various reasons I’ve had to reinstall from scratch all the software on my work MacBook a lot lately. These are some notes on how I get back to usable state from a clean OS X install. I can’t imagine this is super useful to other people, so consider this skippable content.
Set up Homebrew Homebrew is a package manager that makes it significantly easier to get software installed on OS X in a simple way.
This isn’t necessarily the best way but here’s how I went about getting Jekyll going on my local machine in preparation for using Github Pages to server content for my web page.
Installing a Separate Version of Ruby As Jekyll requires a whole mess of Ruby Gems to get going I decided it would be best to install a separate Ruby instance to avoid messing with the OS X system Ruby.
