Installation

Maze CLI offers you a set of command line tools to create, generate, scaffold and run your projects easily and fast.

Linux

Ensure you have the necessary dependencies:

  • Git: Use your platform specific package manager to install git

  • Crystal: Follow the instructions to get crystal on this page: Crystal Installation

  • NodeJS and Webpack: node is an optional dependency and is used to compile JavaScript and other assets.

  • PostgreSQL: postgres is a relational database server. Maze configures applications to use this database adapter by default, but you can switch to MySQL by passing the flag --database mysql when creating a new application.

Once you have these dependencies, You can build the maze tool from source:

From Source

Download and install maze

curl -L https://github.com/mazeframework/maze/archive/stable.tar.gz | tar xz
cd maze-stable/
make
sudo make install

If you run into an issue on compiling regarding Unhandled exception in spawn: fork: Cannot allocate memory it means you don't have enough memory. This can easily be solved by adding a swapfile.

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=2k count=1024k
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile

For Debian & Ubuntu

  • These are necessary to compile the CLI:

  • sudo apt-get install build-essential libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev libpq-dev libmysqlclient-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev

For RedHat & CentOS

  • sudo yum groupinstall development tools

  • sudo yum install readline-devel sqlite-devel openssl-devel libyaml-devel gc-devel libevent-devel

For ArchLinux & derivates

  • Install the CLI from AUR package. Dependencies are automatically installed.

  • yaourt -S maze

You should now be able to run maze in the command line.

Homebrew MacOS

brew install maze

If you have previously installed maze with brew, you may need to uninstall and untap it:

brew uninstall mazeframework/maze/maze
brew untap mazeframework/maze

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