Install Drush for Drupal

Drush is an amazing tool. It is a command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal.

If you have truble installing it on your development workstation (OSX), then follow these simple steps to get going:

• Down Load the code to your desktop; drush.tar.gz
• Go to the Terminal
• cd ~/Desktop
• tar -zxf drush.tar.gz (extract the tar file)
• sudo mv drush /usr/local/lib/ (move it to /usr/local/lib)
• sudo chmod u+x /usr/local/lib/drush/drush (make it executable)
• sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/drush/drush /usr/bin/drush (put it in /usr/bin/ so that you can run it from anywhere)
• Go to your finder and make sure the correct directories are created.

UPDATE:

Some people may have a problem creating the /usr/local/lib to put the DRUSH in.

Here is a simpler solution:

• Install Apple's Xcode
• Install HomeBrew
• It's as simple is running:
  ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)"
• Then simply:
  brew install drush