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Install The Silver Searcher instead of Ack
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https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

* ag searches faster than ack
* ag searches all files by default (but still ignores gitignored files).
  This removes the need for ack's --type-add= options.
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Dan Croak committed Mar 4, 2013
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What it sets up
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* Ack for finding things in files
* Bundler gem for managing Ruby libraries
* Exuberant Ctags for indexing files for vim tab completion
* Foreman gem for serving Rails apps locally
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* Ruby Build for installing Rubies
* Ruby stable for writing general-purpose code
* SSH public key for authenticating with Github and Heroku
* The Silver Searcher for finding things in files
* Tmux for saving project state and switching between projects
* Watch for periodically executing a program and displaying the output

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Expand Up @@ -39,8 +39,8 @@ echo "Installing Postgres, a good open source relational database ..."
echo "Installing Redis, a good key-value database ..."
successfully brew install redis

echo "Installing ack, for searching the contents of files ..."
successfully brew install ack
echo "Installing The Silver Searcher (better than ack or grep) for searching the contents of files ..."
successfully brew install the_silver_searcher

echo "Installing ctags, for indexing files for vim tab completion of methods, classes, variables ..."
successfully brew install ctags
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