setup.md

Ruby on Rails development setup on Ubuntu 12.04

System update

# change mirror to ubuntu.osuosl.org first
sudo apt-get update

Install common libraries

sudo apt-get install build-essential zlib1g-dev git-core sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev

Install all the things

sudo apt-get install vim gitg tmux

Generate SSH keys

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]"

Add public key to github then test it out with this

ssh -T [email protected]

Set global git identity

git config --global user.name "John Doe"
git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

Set default text editor for git

git config --global core.editor vim

Set git status colors

git config --global color.diff auto
git config --global color.status auto
git config --global color.branch auto
git config --global color.status.changed yellow
git config --global color.status.added green
git config --global color.status.untracked red

Verify git settings

git config --list

Install javascript runtime for rails projects

sudo apt-get install nodejs