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    Windows and WSL

    Episode #451 by Teacher's Avatar David Kimura

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    Summary

    In this episode, we'll look at setting up a fresh Windows 11 environment for Ruby on Rails development. We'll be looking at a few different tricks that makes managing a Windows environment much easier.
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    Chapters

    • Introduction (0:00)
    • Installing Windows Terminal (0:57)
    • Install WSL Debian (1:13)
    • Updating WSL Packages (2:41)
    • Installing initial packages (3:02)
    • Installing Oh My ZSH (3:26)
    • Install ASDF (3:49)
    • Installing Ruby (5:39)
    • Side Note About Developing on Windows (6:39)
    • Ruby Install Continued (8:13)
    • Installing Node and Yarn (9:10)
    • Setting new Rails App defaults (9:45)
    • Windows Package Manager (10:49)
    • Installing Visual Studio Code (12:42)
    • WSL Extension (13:23)
    • Installing PG or MySQL2 gems (14:46)
    • Final Thoughts (15:26)

    Resources

    This episode is sponsored by Honeybadger

    Summary

    # Windows Terminal
wsl --list --online
wsl --install -d debian
debian

    # Debian Terminal
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

    # Install Oh-My-ZSH
sudo apt install curl git zsh
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

    # Install ASDF
git clone https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf.git ~/.asdf --branch v0.14.0

source ~/.zshrc

    # ~/.zshrc
source ~/.devrc

    # ~/.devrc
. "$HOME/.asdf/asdf.sh"
export RUBY_YJIT_ENABLE=1

    # Installing Ruby

asdf plugin add ruby

sudo apt-get install autoconf patch build-essential rustc libssl-dev libyaml-dev libreadline6-dev zlib1g-dev libgmp-dev libncurses5-dev libffi-dev libgdbm6 libgdbm-dev libdb-dev uuid-dev -y

asdf install ruby 3.3.0
asdf global ruby 3.3.0

gem update --system
echo 'gem: --no-document' >> ~/.gemrc
gem install rails

    # Installing Node
asdf plugin add nodejs
asdf install nodejs latest
asdf global nodejs latest
npm -g install yarn

    # Creating a Rails app
echo '--javascript esbuild' >> ~/.railsrc
echo '--css bootstrap' >> ~/.railsrc
echo '-a propshaft' >> ~/.railsrc
rails new example

    # Installing Apps
winget search -q "Visual Studio Code"
winget install Microsoft.VisualStudioCode
winget search -q "Google Chrome"
winget install Google.Chrome

    # Installing other dependencies
sudo apt install libpq-dev libmariadb-dev -y