Installation on Leopard

Packages, packages!

Homebrew

Homebrew comes with the required packages for Erlang and RabbitMQ:

brew install erlang
brew install rabbitmq

Then add the directory of newly installed rabbitmq erlang modules to your environment’s $ERL_LIBS variable. For a standard Homebrew installation and a bash terminal this would be:
export ERL_LIBS='/usr/local/Cellar/rabbitmq/2.0.0/lib/rabbitmq/erlang/lib:$ERL_LIBS'
in your .bash_profile or .bash_login file.

Then start RabbitMQ using sudo rabbitmq-server -detached

MacPorts

MacPorts also has both packages at the ready:

port install rabbitmq

Then wait for a couple of minutes. Be prepared to see a lot of dependencies being installed, since the Erlang port depends on tk which in turn will cause a lot of x.org libraries to be installed.

Nanite

Then you can go ahead and install the gems from Gemcutter:

gem install nanite

This will install all the dependencies like EventMachine and AMQP.

The fully manual way

Install Erlang

mkdir ~/nanite_and_friends
wget http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R12B-5.tar.gz
tar -zxvf otp_src_R12B-5.tar.gz
cd otp_src_R12B-5
./configure --enable-hipe --enable-darwin-universal
make && sudo make install

Install simplejson.py

cd ~/nanite_and_friends
wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/simplejson/simplejson-2.0.6.tar.gz
tar -xzvf simplejson-2.0.6.tar.gz
cd simplejson-2.0.6
python setup.py install

Install RabbitMQ

cd ~/nanite_and_friends
wget http://www.rabbitmq.com/releases/rabbitmq-server/v1.5.0/rabbitmq-server-1.5.0.tar.gz
tar -zxvf rabbitmq-server-1.5.0.tar.gz
cd /usr/local/lib/erlang/lib
sudo ln -s ~/nanite_and_friends/rabbitmq-server-1.5.0 ./rabbitmq-server-1.5.0
export PATH=~/nanite_and_friends/rabbitmq-server-1.5.0/scripts:$PATH
cd ~/nanite_and_friends/rabbitmq-server-1.5.0
sudo make run
...
ctrl-c (after all the excitement stops)

Install EventMachine Ruby Gem

sudo gem install eventmachine

Install AMQP

cd ~/nanite_and_friends
git clone git://github.com/tmm1/amqp.git
cd amqp
rake gem
sudo gem install amqp-<VERSION>.gem

Install Nanite

cd ~/nanite_and_friends
git clone git://github.com/ezmobius/nanite.git
cd nanite
export PATH=~/nanite_and_friends/nanite/bin:$PATH
rabbitconf
...
...done.

Test if it works: Testing Nanite