What is required and how to install zucchini framework on Mac OSX?

Question

Zucchini framework seems a promising candidate for quality assurance of iOS user interfaces.

However, the installation steps provided on their website assume that most of the prerequisites already exist OR that one is already familiar with the intricacies of command line.

I would like to know what requires to be installed before I can successfully install and use zucchini framework on Mac OSX.

Answer 1

Requirements

Zucchini framework has the following requirements:

• Ruby >= 1.9.3
• Xcode >= 4.2 (for this installation process we require Xcode >= 4.6.2)
• Xcode command line tools
• Nodejs
• Coffee script (node module)

How to install

1. Install Homebrew

   $> ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

2. Update Homebrew

   $> brew update

3. Install imagemagick and nodejs

   $> brew install imagemagick node

4. Install coffee script module for nodejs

   i. Install coffee script

   $> npm install coffee-script

   ii. Add coffee bin to your PATH environment variable

   $> cd ~

   $> sudo vim .bash_profile

   • Press i, to switch into insert mode then add following line
   • PATH=$PATH:$HOME/node_modules/coffee-script/bin
   • Press :w to save and
   • Press :q to quit vim
   • Now relaunch the terminal.

   iii. Verify that coffee script is successfully installed.

   • At the prompt

     $> coffee

   • To exit from coffee script type following at the coffee> prompt:

     process.exit()

5. Install command line tools for Xcode

6. Install and/or update ruby (if its less than 1.9.3)

   i. ruby is installed on Mac OSX by default, verify using the following command:

   $> ruby -v

   ii. Install rvm (Ruby version manager)

   $> \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails --autolibs=enabled

   iii. Add rvm bin directory to path variable $> sudo vim .bash_profile

   • Insert the following line, save and quit
     [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"
   • Relaunch the terminal.

   iv. Update ruby to 1.9.3 or later

   $> rvm install 1.9.3

7. Install zucchini

   $> gem install zucchini-ios

NOTE: I have included the reference for each step from where I got help during installation.