geeksam / dotfiles

bash customization

These are my dotfiles. There are many like them, but these ones are mine.

Notes to Future Sams:

New computer?

• Install Hammerspoon: https://www.hammerspoon.org/
• clone this repo to ~/dotfiles
• cd dotfiles
• Set up shell helpers, aliases, config files, and so on:
  • ./symlink_all_the_things
• Make sure homebrew is installed: https://brew.sh/
  • Use homebrew to install the following:
  • macvim (to get a reasonable version of Vim)
  • thefuck (because it's funny and useful)
  • bat (useful)
  • ack, the_silver_searcher, ripgrep (can't have too many grep alternatives!)
  • fzf (fuzzy finder)
• Launch vim and run :PlugInstall
• Install asdf from https://asdf-vm.com/guide/getting-started.html
  • as of Feb 2024 they recommend installing via Git, so if you do that, use the "Git + bash" instructions, not the "homebrew + bash" set
  • use asdf to install a Ruby
    • ???

x Install some Ruby version manager (probably rbenv): * rbenv: https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv * RVM: http://rvm.io/ * asdf: * `brew install asdf` * `brew install openssl libyaml libffi` (required by the `asdf-ruby` plugin; note that this may cause some Ruby Woes below) * `asdf plugin-add ruby https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-ruby.git`

Ruby Woes

Trouble getting Ruby's mysql2 gem to build properly?

You probably need to add a few hints about where stuff is. (Obviously, double-check the paths below; new computers may not need to run MySQL 5.6, for example.)

• If mysql_config can't be found, try adding: -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/opt/mysql@5.6/bin/mysql_config
• If -lss can't be linked, try adding: -- --with-ldflags=-L/usr/local/opt/openssl/lib --with-cppflags=-I/usr/local/opt/openssl/include

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Clever ideas I could possibly implement at some point:

• add an indicator to the prompt showing whether the last command had an exit status of 0