Pro-tip: you can use "brew info [package-name]" to lookup the post-install info that flashes up after a homebrew install.
$ brew info cassandra
cassandra: stable 2.1.2
http://cassandra.apache.org
Not installed
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/cassandra.rb
==> Caveats
If you plan to use the CQL shell (cqlsh), you will need the Python CQL library
installed. Since Homebrew prefers using pip for Python packages, you can
install that using:
pip install cql
To have launchd start cassandra at login:
ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/cassandra/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
Then to load cassandra now:
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.cassandra.plist