Ubuntu Linux Installfest

installfest.md

Installing Tools

1. HipChat

• Google Chrome
  • sudo apt-get install libxss1
  • wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
  • sudo dpkg -i google-chrome*.deb
• Install Ruby + Rails (Be sure to read the below instructions before going to the linked guide.)
  • In the linked guide when you get to generating you SSH key, as you're generating the key it requests a location to create the files, use the example the prompt provides. *If you create a psscode when generating the key, you will be prompted for the passcode when testing the connection.
  • Skip the portion of the guide for installing MySQL
  • In the final steps there are three different commands that start with rails new use the third one rails new myapp -d postgresql
  • After completing the linked guide run the following commands
    1. git config --global alias.st "status -sb -uall"
    • git config --core.editor "subl"
    • git config --global core.editor "subl"
    • git config --global core.excludefile "~/.gitignore_global"
    • gem update --system
    • gem install bundler rails pry --no-document
• Setup Github Account
• Set up Bash Profile
  • mkdir ~/bin
  • Open your .gitconfig file subl ~/.gitconfig and verify it matches the following .gitconfig
  • Open your .gitignore-global file subl ~/.gitignore-global and copy the following to it .gitignore-global
  • Open your bash profile subl ~/.bashrc and add the contents of the following to the end of the file .bashrc
  • Customize icon if you want! (we set up as ♬)
• Sublime Text 2
  1. Package Manger
  2. Sublime Text > Preferences > Settings-User

MyAmazingFirstApp

• Students can fork and complete this assignment in order to ensure that their dev environment has been set up correctly.