This procedure is tested on Mac OS X 10.8 with Developpers tools installed (xCode).
PHP 5.4 installed with Homebrew.
Update: I wrote a blog post about this.
Download the following files from Oracle website (yes, you need to create an account and accept terms):
There's no shortage of good resources for learning laravel. So instead of the usual introductory tutorial were just gonna learn Laravel by building a project from scratch and that's gonna be a User Management System.
I don't know if my definition of a User Management System is correct but here's my idea of what's it's capable of doing: