dev-environment

Instructions for setting up my Ubuntu 18.04 dev environment on a Windows 10 computer

WSL setup

1. Make sure you have Windows 10 version 1809 or later
2. Follow the tutorial for setting up WSL here:
   https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/using-wsl-and-mobaxterm-to-create-a-linux-dev-environment-on-windows
   Notes:
   • Download Ubuntu 18.04
   • Skip the Docker setup for now

git setup

1. Install:

   sudo apt-get install git-core
   

2. Configure user:

   git config --global user.name "name"
   git config --global user.email "name@example.com"
   

3. Create SSL key

   ssh-keygen
   

4. Add SSL key to github
5. git QOL stuff:

   sudo apt-get install git-core bash-completion
   git config --global push.default current # auto set-upstream
   

rbenv, ruby, rails setup

1. Install rbenv and ruby-build (instructions borrowed from https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-ruby-on-rails-with-rbenv-on-ubuntu-18-04):

   sudo apt install autoconf bison build-essential libssl-dev libyaml-dev libreadline6-dev zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgdbm5 libgdbm-dev
   git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
   echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
   echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
   source ~/.bashrc
   git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
   

2. Install latest ruby
3. Install essential gems:

   gem install bundler
   gem install rails
   rbenv rehash
   

4. IRB history -- add to ~/.irbc

   require 'irb/completion'
   require 'irb/ext/save-history'
   
   ARGV.concat [ "--readline",
                 "--prompt-mode",
                 "simple" ]
   
   # 100 entries in the list
   IRB.conf[:SAVE_HISTORY] = 100
   
   # Store results in home directory with specified file name
   IRB.conf[:HISTORY_FILE] = "#{ENV['HOME']}/.irb-history"
   

Test with rails --version

pyenv, python

1. Follow instructions to install pyenv from https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv#basic-github-checkout a. git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv.git ~/.pyenv b. Add to .bashrc:

   export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"
   export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"
   eval "$(pyenv init -)"
   

c. exec "$SHELL" d. Install dependencies: sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends make build-essential libssl-dev zlib1g-dev libbz2-dev libreadline-dev libsqlite3-dev wget curl llvm libncurses5-dev xz-utils tk-dev libxml2-dev libxmlsec1-dev libffi-dev liblzma-dev 2. pyenv install 3.8.5 3. pyenv global 3.8.5 4. pip install pipenv

nvm, node setup

Install nvm, node:

sudo apt-get install gcc g++ make
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/creationix/nvm/v0.33.0/install.sh | bash
export NVM_DIR="/home/curtis/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"

vagrant setup

I haven't been able to get this working yet. Here's what I've done so far:

1. Install VirtualBox on the Windows host machine and add its directory to Windows PATH
2. Install Vagrant on Linux

   sudo apt-get install vagrant
   echo 'export VAGRANT_WSL_ENABLE_WINDOWS_ACCESS="1"' >> ~/.bashrc
   echo 'export PATH="$PATH:/mnt/c/Program Files/Oracle/VirtualBox"' >> ~/.bashrc
   source ~/.bashrc
   vagrant plugin install vagrant-libvirt
   sudo apt-get install qemu libvirt-bin ebtables dnsmasq-base
   sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev libxml2-dev libvirt-dev zlib1g-dev ruby-dev
   

Things will be working when I can successfully vagrant up

Terminal customization

Install tmux:

sudo apt-get install tmux

Add to ~/.bashrc:

export PS1='\W \$ '

SublimeText setup