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Clojure definitely is one of the hottest new programming languages around and just recently hit a very important milestone. Setting up a nice Clojure development environment on OS X still can be a bit of a pain though, which can be seen by the number of HOWTOs and installation notes floating around on the web. I therefore decided to expand one of those into ClojureX, which I believe is the easiest way to get up to speed with Clojure development on Leopard.

ClojureX can

• download and build the source code for Clojure, clojure-contrib and JLine (a readline like library for Java)
• download editor support packages for TextMate and Emacs
• create a symlink for the Clojure startup script in /usr/local/bin
• install support for TextMate via the clojure-tmbundle
• configure Emacs to use clojure-mode, Slime and swank-clojure
• keep your Clojure installation up to date via a simple “git submodule update && ant”

I hope this will come in handy for other people interested in trying out Clojure on Mac OS X, if you have any feedback please post it in the comment section.

As we all know posting code to Moodle (the software that powers RubyLearning) can be a bit cumbersome. I therefore created a TextMate command which will

• take the currently active file
• replace all occurrences of < with the HTML-entity
• wrap all of that in [code ruby] tags and
• copy it to the clipboard, ready to be pasted into the forums.

Source:

Download:
RubyLearning.tmCommand