Composer running out of memory on every project, Mac OS X

Question

I attempted to install aws/aws-sdk-php yesterday on one of my Laravel 4 projects using Composer, I cannot remember exactly the chain of events but it did not in

Answer 1

At the present moment there is a bug on Composer causing memory to be exhausted.

If you do

composer install

Then delete a folder inside vendor

rm -rf vendor/laravel

and do

composer update

You'll get this error. It's a bug, it is not supposed to run out of memory.

For now you can fix it for yourself by doing:

php -d memory_limit=-1 /usr/local/bin/composer update

Also, check this thread, they are about to fix this.