Dev Environment Setup

This post covers some of the basic steps I need to do each time to setup my dev environment on a new mac. I use this post in conjunction with the mac tools post.

• Git
  • Install git – I usually run “git -version” from the command line and you’ll be prompted to install XCode.
  • Generate a new SSH key (see here), otherwise you will get errors like:

Permission denied (publickey).
fatal: Could not read from remote repository.)

I personally use a blank password when prompted by ssh-keygen, since access requires access to the private key. For more details on passwords see https://help.github.com/articles/working-with-ssh-key-passphrases/

If you already have an ssh key but want to use an additional one (e.g. work vs personal github accounts), you can modify your ~/.ssh/config to specify different credentials for different domains. See https://superuser.com/questions/287651/can-i-have-multiple-ssh-keys-in-my-ssh-folder. Remember that the contents of any new rsa.pub file that you create need to be copied into your Github profile -> Settings -> SSH and GPG Keys -> Add new SSH key

 

• Java
  • Install Java
• Bash
  • Pull down my bash scripts from https://github.com/sabram/scripts (into ~/dev)
  • echo “source ~/dev/scripts/.bash_profile” > ~/.bash_profile
  • Since .bash_profile_ext contains company specific settings, I do not make it public and instead sore it in github. Copy to ~
  • Download git-completion.bash to ~
• AWS
  • Install the AWS CLI – see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/awscli-install-bundle.html
• Tools
  •  Brew
    • To install, see https://brew.sh/
  • Maven
    • $ brew install maven

Tags: devenvironment, mac, macbook, productivity, setup, tools