This simple shell script largely automates the process of downloading, compiling and installing a full-featured web development environment for Mac OS X. It includes the necessary build commands for Intel-based computers running Mac OS X Leopard (may also work on Tiger, but untested) and is regularly maintained to keep installed packages up-to-date.

Includes build/install commands for:

• zlib
• LibXML2
• LibXSLT
• lxml for Python
• SQLite 3
• Readline
• Ruby 1.8.7
• Expat
• MySQL Community Server
• Ruby Gems
• FastCGI
• Ruby FastCGI Bindings
• GetText
• PCRE
• Lighttpd
• Ghostscript
• Ghostscript Fonts
• Freetype
• LibPNG
• LibJPEG
• LibTIFF
• LibWMV
• LCMS
• ImageMagick
• Apache 2
• Pound
• Neon
• LibArt 2
• Ruby on Rails
• Mongrel
• Thin
• MySQL Gem for Ruby
• Django
• MySQL for Django
• Subversion
• Git
• numerous Ruby Gems

Requires installation of the Xcode Developer Tools and the Mac OS X 10.3.x SDK frameworks.

The script will also create a Launch Daemon for MySQL along with a MySQL configuration file in /etc with a couple default parameters to increase security. The script also downloads a patch for the Ruby MySQL bindings which improves speed and memory usage.