CoffeeScript And Mountain Lion

Here are the necessary steps to install CoffeeScript on Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion):

  1. Install Command Lion Tools for Xcode

  2. Install Homebrew:

    ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

  3. Install Node.js with Homebrew:

    brew install node

  4. Install npm (the version comes with node doesn't install CoffeeScript properly for some reason):

    curl https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

  5. Install CoffeeScript with npm:

    npm install -g coffee-script
# add environment variable to ~/.bashrc
echo "export NODE_PATH=/usr/local/lib/node_modules"
. ~/.bashrc

  6. Done!

I had to google around to figure out the environment variable and the issue with npm. Hopefully this will help some folks in the similar need.