Provisioning LEARN Machines

Updated: January 2024

What is in this repo

• Brewfile with all the technologies that can be installed with homebrew and applications that can be installed with brew cask on a new machine
• Countries database for PostgreSQL challenges
• Alumni provision instructions

How to set up a new machine

• reset computer
• install Homebrew
• $ brew install git
• clone repo to root directory
• $ brew bundle --file ~/provision/Brewfile
• store all new apps in the doc
• install rvm

cd provision
brew services start postgresql; createdb; cp countries.sql ~/Desktop/countries.sql; psql -c "create database countries"; psql countries < ~/Desktop/countries.sql

• log in to PGAdmin and create a new object, run a test query
• create a test React app
• create a test Rails app

Specifying a Ruby version

• install rvm
• $ rvm install 3.2.0
• $ rvm --default use 3.2.0
• $ gem update --system
• $ gem install rails

Troubleshooting

• Error on RVM install: error running __rvm_make j8 rvm, use rvm install ruby-3.2.0 --with-openssl-dir=/usr/local/opt/openssl

Docs

• Homebrew Brewfile docs