Homebrew Tap for Amber CLI

This is the official Homebrew distribution layer for the standalone Amber CLI.

Supported beta platforms

Platform	Archive
Apple Silicon macOS	amber_cli-darwin-arm64.tar.gz
x86_64 Linux	amber_cli-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

Intel macOS and Linux ARM64 are not release-gated for this beta.

Install

The tap and formula are named amber_cli; the executable is named amber:

brew install amberframework/amber_cli/amber_cli
amber --version

The fully qualified install follows Homebrew's tap-trust model and trusts only the amber_cli formula, not every current or future item in the tap.

This installs amber and amber-lsp, plus the Crystal and runtime libraries needed by the release binary.

Verify with a web app

amber new amber_beta_smoke --type web
cd amber_beta_smoke
crystal spec
crystal build src/amber_beta_smoke.cr -o bin/amber_beta_smoke
amber watch

Open http://127.0.0.1:3000 and http://127.0.0.1:3000/css/app.css. The generated app pins amberframework/amber at 2.0.0-beta.2 and uses ECR.

Update

brew update
brew upgrade amber_cli
amber --version

Uninstall

brew uninstall amber_cli
brew untap amberframework/amber_cli

Troubleshooting

If the wrong executable runs:

type -a amber
brew list --versions amber_cli

Remove or rename an older Amber V1 executable, or place Homebrew earlier in PATH. On macOS, a beta binary must not require openssl@1.1; include otool -L "$(command -v amber)" in a formula issue.

Report formula problems at https://github.com/amberframework/homebrew-amber_cli/issues with the OS, architecture, brew config, amber --version, and complete error output.