Summary
A broad look into the Apple M1 from the perspective of a Ruby Developer. We look at a lot of the different aspects; Docker, asdf Ruby, Visual Studio Code, and more.development rails 12:35
Resources
UPDATE Feb 2021: I've been using the M1 with Docker successfully and it has been a great experience. At this point I would probably hold off until their next version as it will likely be much faster. However, if you're in a pinch and need something now. A 16GB RAM version would be the way to go. I've head of many who got the 8GB version and wish they had gone with 16GB. You can get started with Docker on the M1 at https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/apple-m1/
UPDATE April 2021: I've been using HomeBrew without specifying the x86 Arch for some time now and it's been very stable.
UPDATE April 2021: I've been using HomeBrew without specifying the x86 Arch for some time now and it's been very stable.
Summary
Homebrew
arch -x86_64 /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"
Oh My ZSH
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)" compaudit | xargs chmod g-w,o-w # Add to ~/.zshrc alias a="arch -x86_64" alias ibrew="arch -x86_64 brew"
Other Applications
brew cask install iterm2 ibrew install node npm -g install yarn ibrew install postgresql ibrew install redis
Docker
arch -x86_64 brew install docker ssh-keygen ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_rsa USERNAME@IP_ADDRESS docker run -p 80:80 nginx
asdf
ibrew install asdf echo ". $(brew --prefix asdf)/asdf.sh" >> ~/.zshrc source ~/.zshrc asdf plugin-add ruby https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-ruby.git a asdf install ruby 2.7.2 asdf global ruby 2.7.2
Other
echo 'gem: --no-document' >> ~/.gemrc
Rails
gem install rails rails new template rails db:system:change --to=postgresql
Update
I've been testing things further with an alternative method of Homebrew installation. This will allow for packages to be installed to the arm64 instead of forcing them through Rosetta2. The benefit of this is that libraries like RVM and asdf will use Homebrew to install dependencies. Now, with the dependencies being installed for arm64 instead of Rosetta2, we can install and compile Ruby for arm.
Install Homebrew
xcode-select --install mkdir homebrew && curl -L https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/tarball/master | tar xz --strip 1 -C homebrew sudo mv homebrew /opt/homebrew cd /opt/homebrew/bin ./brew update echo "export PATH="/opt/homebrew/bin:$PATH"" >> ~/.zshrc source ~/.zshrc
IMPORTANT NOTE
If you're now having issues with brew installs, you can try to add the -s flag which will download from source even if a package is available.
brew install -s PROGRAM_NAME
If you're going to be using Ruby on Rails, there is an issue with the FFI library where you will need to pull from master. This is accurate for the 1.13.1 version of FFI. You can add this to the Gemfile
gem 'ffi', github: 'ffi/ffi' # or gem 'ffi', git: 'https://github.com/ffi/ffi.git'
You'll need to install node from source.
brew install wget wget https://nodejs.org/download/release/latest/node-v15.3.0.tar.gz tar zxf node-v15.3.0.tar.gz cd node-v15.3.0 ./configure; make sudo make install sudo npm -g install yarn
Install RVM (or asdf) and Ruby
\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable source $HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm rvm install 2.7.2
Check it Out
➜ ~ ruby -v ruby 2.7.2p137 (2020-10-01 revision 5445e04352) [arm64-darwin20]
The results are amazing. HOWEVER, I just cannot recommend this approach at this moment until things get ironed out. There are still too many issues and compatibility problems with the Ruby ARM Version. I've found a few crashes and it's just not stable enough. For now, continue to use the Ruby x86 version.
