Homebrew — MacPorts driving you to drink? Try Homebrew!

Homebrew is the easiest and most flexible way to install the UNIX tools Apple didn't include with OS X.
```
$ brew install wget
```

Homebrew installs packages into their own isolated prefix and then symlinks everything into /usr/local.

$ cd /usr/local
$ find Cellar
Cellar/wget/1.12
Cellar/wget/1.12/bin/wget
Cellar/wget/1.12/share/man/man1/wget.1

$ ls -l bin
bin/wget -> ../Cellar/wget/1.12/bin/wget

Homebrew is self-contained and unintrusive.

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Create your own Homebrew packages in seconds.

$ brew create http://foo.com/bar-1.0.tgz
Created /usr/local/Library/Formula/foo.rb

Homebrew has a Git foundation, so enjoy version control on your brewing customizations and easily merge upstream updates.
```
$ brew edit wget # opens in TextMate!
```

Homebrew formula are simple Ruby scripts:

require 'formula'

class Wget <Formula
  homepage 'http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/'
  url 'http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.12.tar.bz2'
  md5 '308a5476fc096a8a525d07279a6f6aa3'

  def install
    system "./configure", "--disable-debug", "--prefix=#{prefix}"
    system "make install"
  end
end

Homebrew compliments OS X. Install your gems with gem, and their dependencies with brew.
Please! Oh please teach me more!
“ Homebrew is the bee’s knees, friends. So far it’s a perfect replacement for MacPorts. ”
— @thillerson