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How to up a Ruby on Rails dev environment on NeoVim for macOS Catalina.

Utilities

Homebrew

Package manager for macOS https://brew.sh

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Git and other command line tools

Trying to execute git for the first time will trigger the install wizzard. This will install git and other command line tools necessary for compiling some gems.

git

Thoughbot's RCM

Helps with keeping configuration files in a single directory https://github.com/thoughtbot/rcm

brew tap thoughtbot/formulae
brew install rcm

GNU's coreutils

Various useful GNU utilities.

brew install coreutils

Silver Searcher

Grep on steroids

brew install the_silver_searcher

Tags

Global tags and Ctags

brew install global

diff-so-fancy

Nice looking git diff formater

brew install diff-so-fancy

Yarn

JS package manager. Also installs Node.js as a dependency.

brew install yarn

import-js

Random JS dependency for javascript development on SpaceVim

npm install -g import-js

Terminal setup

Keypress responsiveness

Increase speed on keypress.

defaults write -g InitialKeyRepeat -int 10
defaults write -g KeyRepeat -int 1

Iterm2

Awesome terminal emulator https://iterm2.com

brew cask install iterm2

Nord color scheme (optional).

Awesome color scheme. Follow instructions on https://github.com/arcticicestudio/nord-iterm2 to install Nord on iterm2.

Colors for directories and files in the terminal.

curl -fLo ~/.dircolors https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arcticicestudio/nord-dircolors/develop/src/dir_colors

Nerd hack font.

Patched version of the hack font https://www.nerdfonts.com with extra icons and glyphs.

brew tap homebrew/cask-fonts
brew cask install font-hack-nerd-font

Select hack as the default font on your iterm2 profile.

Oh My Zsh

Fancy shell prompt and extra plugins for the Zsh shell.

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Config files

Dotfiles

Clone this repo and run Rcup to install these configuration files.

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/jesusabarca/.dotfiles.git
cd .dotfiles
rcup -v SpaceVim.d/ zshrc gitconfig gitignore_global

Update your name and email address on ~/.gitconfig

Ruby on Rails

Rbenv with ruby-build

Ruby version manager.

brew install rbenv

Ruby

Exit terminal and open again to initialize Rbenv properly

Check the latest available versions of Ruby

rbenv install --list | egrep "[^-.]2\.\d{1,2}\.\d{1,2}$" | tail

Install the latest Ruby version (ie 2.6.5), set it up as the default versionand install rubocop

rbenv install 2.6.5
rbenv global 2.6.5
gem install rubocop

Verify Rbenv works properly

curl -fsSL https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv-installer/raw/master/bin/rbenv-doctor | bash

PostgreSQL

SQL database system

brew install postgresql
brew services start postgresql

Redis

In-memory DB. Necessary for using Sidekiq and other cool gems.

brew install redis
brew services start redis

Rails

MVC awesomeness

gem install rails

NeoVim + SpaceVim

NeoVim

Awesome Vim fork

brew install neovim

Spacevim

Vim distribution with feature layers https://spacevim.org

curl -sLf https://spacevim.org/install.sh | bash

Run NeoVim after installing SpaceVim.

If asked, use "j" and "k" keys to select "Dark power mode" and press enter.

nvim

Close with ":qa" and run NeoVim again a couple of times to allow all the plugins to install.