I use OS X when developing application at work. In OS X homebrew is popular.

What is homebrew?

Wikipedia defines it as: a free and open-source software package management system that simplifies the installation of software on Apple's macOS operating system. Originally written by Max Howell, the package manager has gained popularity in the Ruby on Rails community and earned praise for its extensibility.

You can install a package in homebrew via brew install command

sh $ brew install mysql

Today I learned that brew has an info command:

sh $ brew info package-name

As you might guess this outputs some valuable information about the specified package you pass in the command. Say you forgot how to run redis server on your machine and you previously didn't take note on how to do it then just ask brew about it because sometimes google is not necessary:

sh $ brew info redis

You will get a result like this which informs you where the package came from and more importantly it gives information on how to run it:

redis: stable 3.2.9 (bottled), devel 4.0RC3, HEAD Persistent key-value database, with built-in net interface https://redis.io/ /usr/local/Cellar/redis/3.2.8 (11 files, 1.7MB) * Poured from bottle on 2017-05-08 at 16:39:05 From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/redis.rb ==> Options --with-jemalloc Select jemalloc as memory allocator when building Redis --devel Install development version 4.0RC3 --HEAD Install HEAD version ==> Caveats To have launchd start redis now and restart at login: brew services start redis Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run: redis-server /usr/local/etc/redis.conf

Now take a cup of brewed :coffee: