Installing Raindrop on Mac OS X

I’m really excited about Mozilla Raindrop; it have many cool features and technologies behind it. If you don’t know what Raindrop is, take a look at Introducing Raindrop.

This is a very short how-to showing how to install Raindrop on a machine running Mac OS X; a more complete guide can be found on Mozilla Wiki.

First, download and install CouchDBX. Then create a file called ~/.raindrop containing something like this:

Finally, install Raindrop and it’s dependencies:

After the “run-raindrop.py” command finishes you can access http://127.0.0.1:5984/raindrop/inflow/index.html to see the Raindrop web interface.