An Ansible playbook to configure a rails development machine in a Debian based distribution with:

• Asdf as a version manager
• Asdf plugins for ruby and nodejs
• Yarn
• Database development libraries for postgreSQL, MariaDB and SQLite

In addition:

• Configure a SSH key-based authentication
• Add the user to sudoers

It expects an inventory that defines "development" hosts (see inventory.example.yml) You can execute the playbook with the command: ansible-playbook develop_environment.yml -Kk -i inventory.yml

If you don't want to install the database libraries you can skip them with --skip-tags databases-lib: ansible-playbook develop_environment.yml -Kk -i inventory.yml --skip-tags databases-lib

After running the playbook you can install your favourites ruby and nodejs versions with asdf.

Installing ruby and nodejs

1. Choose your ruby version from asdf list all ruby
2. Install ruby with asdf install ruby [version] e.g. asdf install ruby 2.7.2
3. Choose your nodejs version from asdf list all nodejs
4. Install nodejs with asdf install nodejs [version] e.g. asdf install nodejs 15.5.1
5. Set current version on your system according to the asdf documentation.