I spent a good amount of time today trying to figure out how to turn my “old” iMac into a development environment, which included installing Cruise Control. Since I didn’t want to run the launch script manually, I tried (and failed) to find someone who’s successfully gotten cruise to autostart on boot. A bit of investigation later and I came up with a solution, drawn from an excellent blog post on adding your own osx boot launch scripts, an archive script on launching cruise on unix init, and the tacit information in the MySQLCOM Bootstrapper contained in the OSX Binary Distribution.