Setting up your Cappuccino development environment

official instructions and don’t aim to replace them, but possibly make them a little easier to follow. Here we go:

Get the source:

git clone git://github.com/280north/cappuccino.git

Make a directory for the built products, for example I did:
```
mkdir /Users/johannes/Code/capp_build
```
Add $CAPP_BUILD to your .profile (or whatever you use) I did:
```
export CAPP_BUILD=/Users/johannes/Code/capp_build
```
Source it:
```
source ~/.profile
```
Build and install cappuccino:
```
cd cappuccino && sudo rake install
```
That's it!

To update to the latest version, you can later just change into the cappuccino directory and run

git pull

and then

sudo rake clobber-all install

And if you use TextMate, you'll want to install the TextMate Objective-J bundle like so (in the cappuccino directory):

open ./Build/Cappuccino/Tools/Editors/TextMate/JavaScript\ Objective-J.tmbundle

One more optional thing you should do is set up your name in capp (the tool you'll use to generate new applications):

capp config user.name "Your Name"

You can also set up additional values. So now you're all set to start your first Cappuccino project.

Thanks, ncho!
[cheesy]I had as much fun writing them as you had reading them[/cheesy] ;-)

September 12, 2009 10:18 AM

Johannes -- thanks for these Cappucinno tutorials. This is great! Also, good to see someone pushing the Radiant envelope -- excellent CMS.

September 11, 2009 06:41 PM