I've had my G3 iBook for over three years now and it's served a lot of different functions as my life has changed. Now I want it to be a dedicated development machine.

I'm installing Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) to get the most recent technology updates from Apple (like Java 5) as well as the best support for my Ruby on Rails development.

I'm basing this clean install of Tiger on my steps for re-installing Panther a year ago, with a few changes.

1. Installed Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger from DVD, erasing the previous installation.
2. Right after it booted, I was prompted to update to 10.4.6.
3. Installed Mac OS X Xcode 2 Tools from CD.
4. Changed the computer name in Sharing preferences.
5. Installed DarwinPorts.
6. Updated DarwinPorts:
    sudo port -d selfupdate
7. Added some environment variables to ~/.profile:
    export PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin
    export MANPATH=$MANPATH:/opt/local/share/man
    export INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:/opt/local/share/info
8. Installed Readline, Ruby and RubyGems with DarwinPorts:
    sudo port install rb-rubygems
9. Installed Rails:
    sudo gem install rails
10. Installed Subversion:
    sudo port install subversion
11. Installed MySQL 4:
    sudo port install mysql4 +server
    and followed the instructions to
     (a) set the mysql root password and
     (b) run the mysql server at startup
12. Downloaded RadRails:
    I put it in /Applications/radrails/0.6.2
    and the workspace in ~/rails-workspace
13. Downloaded Eclipse:
    I put it in /Applications/eclipse/3.2RC3
    and the workspace in ~/workspace
14. Installed lighttpd:
    sudo port install lighttpd
    sudo port install rb-fcgi