Standalone MacOS Build Overview. RabbitMQ releases used to include a special binary package for macOS that bundled a supported version of Erlang/OTP.

In this tutorial, we will learn to install RabbitMQ on Mac using Homebrew.
RabbitMQ is an open source message broker software. It is lightweight and easy to deploy. It supports AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol), STOMP (Streaming Text Oriented Messaging Protocol), MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) and other protocols.
Alright, let's install RabbitMQ on Mac using Homebrew.
Homebrew is 'The missing package manager for macOS'.
Installing applications and packages using Homebrew on Mac is super easy. I will recommend you to use Homebrew if you are a developer and use Mac for dev work.
Okay, open Terminal and type the following command.
Once you have Homebrew installed on your Mac, type the following command to check the version.
At the time of writing this tutorial I was using v2.0.1.
If you already have Homebrew installed on your Mac then run the following command to update it.
This will update the packages. If you have the latest updates then you will get the following output.
Now, run the following command in Terminal to install RabbitMQ.
RabbitMQ server and CLI script are installed under /usr/local/sbin. Add this to PATH.
I have added the following to .bash_profile file.
Inside the .bash_profile file.
RabbitMQ server and CLI tools are generally inside /usr/local/Cellar/rabbitmq/{version}/sbin/ directory.
On my Mac the RabbitMQ server and CLI tools are present inside the /usr/local/Cellar/rabbitmq/3.7.11/sbin/ directory.
To start the RabbitMQ run the following command.
We can access RabbitMQ web dashboard by going to http://localhost:15672 so, open the link in your favourite browser.
The default username and password is guest and guest respectively.
RabbitMQ dashboard.

To stop RabbitMQ press Ctrl + C.
We may get an error like The `brew link` step did not complete successfully when trying to install RabbitMQ.
To fix this we have to run the following command.
We get the error /usr/local/sbin is not writable message.
This is because /usr/local/sbin directory is not present. So, go to /etc/paths.d directory and created a file named usr_local_sbin and write the path /usr/local/sbin inside the file and save it.
Inside usr_local_sbin file:
Now, create /usr/local/sbin directory.
Now change the ownership. Type whoami to get your username. Mine is yusufshakeel so, I will use the following.
Now run the brew link rabbitmq command.
Linking is done!
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