Post: Simplest way to install Lift on OSX

Make sure you have java installed
```
java -version
```
Make sure that you have $HOME/bin in your $PATH
```
echo $PATH
```

Install the `sbt` tool:

mkdir -p $HOME/bin
echo "Downloading sbt-launch jar"
curl -l http://simple-build-tool.googlecode.com/files/sbt-launch-0.7.4.jar > $HOME/bin/sbt-launch.jar

cat <<'EOF' > ~/bin/sbt
#!/usr/bin/env bash
java -Xmx512M -jar `dirname $0`/sbt-launch.jar "$@"
EOF

chmod u+x ~/bin/sbt

Clone @dpp's example repo:

git clone https://github.com/dpp/starting_point.git

Run the "install every dependency and start the server" command (slow first time, faster subsequent times)
```
sbt update ~jetty-run
```
Verify http://localhost:8080/ responds.

This should work with most linux distros as well.

Note: if it doesn't respond, then you might have hit "enter" while the `sbt update ~jetty-run` command was going... for some reason it will interpret the enter key as a SIGINT, so just re-run the `sbt update ~jetty-run` and reload in your browser.

Simplest way to install Lift on OSX January 11, 2011