Ubuntu Ruby Dev

This simple bash script will install common packages used in Ruby/Rails development to your empty Ubuntu machine.

Tested on:

• Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS x86_64 Desktop Edition (Unity DE)
• Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS x86_64 Minimal Install (without any DE at all)

How to use:

Download the script to your machine. Then run:

$ chmod +x ./ubuntu_ruby_dev.sh
$ ./ubuntu_ruby_dev.sh

Enter a password, start installation process and select tools you want to install.

After you can drink a cup of coffee or water, automated installation would take 15-20 minutes (depends on the amount of selected packages and Internet connection speed).

Also revert option is available. (Unless you delete the ubuntu_ruby_dev_revert.txt file created during the installation.

Run in the same folder:

$ ./ubuntu_ruby_dev.sh -r

Than it will remove all installed packages.

Processing logs will be available in the same folder in the ubuntu_ruby_dev.log file.

Also you can use -v (--verbose) option to print logs to STDOUT additionaly to the log file.

What is included:

• bash
• awk
• sed
• grep
• ls
• cp
• tar
• curl
• gunzip
• bunzip2
• git
• vim
• imagemagick
• RVM
• Ruby
• NodeJs
• MySQL
• Postgresql
• Redis
• Ag
• Ctags

By default all packages and utilites comming with latest stable versions, inluding Ruby.

TODO:

• ask everything required at the beggining of execution to allow silent install without user iteraction
• add automated testing (at least syntax)
• refactor script syntax in accordance with Shellcheck style guides (Travis CI build status)
• add 'verbose' option to show what is going on not only in log file
• add possibility to choose packages for install rather than install everything
• check already installed tools, upgrade them or do nothing if not needed (Except Redis which would just reinstalled)
• add possibility to install specific Ruby version rather than just latest one
• add possibility to select default root password to MySQL rather than empty one
• add possibility to read from external source file for additional packages or commands
• implement more intellegent revert process to uninstall only packages installed by script itself
• add post install message with information about installation paths and configuration options
• make revert file dynamicly rather than at the end of execution (than if script falls in middle there would be something already)
• ?additional automated testing (at least syntax)?

Inspired by:

thoughtbot OS X laptop script

License:

Copyright (c) MIT [2015] [aliaksandrb]