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Bootstrapping Procedure

or: how to create the USB-Stick yourself

We started with the 32-bit Version of Ubuntu to be able to run on older netbooks. That didn't boot on a Mac and wasn't bearable on netbooks with USB 2.0 ports only anyways.

  • Download Ubuntu Mate 15.10 64-bit PC ISO

  • Install ISO to USB-Stick using Unetbootin

    • Max out Space used to preserve Files on Reboots. We will use this file system to install Ruby, Rails and other useful tools.

  • Boot into the USB-Stick. Everything you are doing will be persisted, so that you only have to do it once.

  • Enable the local firewall (in the console: [Applications] - [System Tools] - [Mate Terminal]) sudo ufw enable

  • Set up your network connection

  • Set your keyboard layout preferences in
    [System] - [Preferences] - [Hardware] - [Keyboard] - [Layouts]

  • Update package information
    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

  • Installing Ruby via RVM

    • Add Keys
      gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3
    • Install prerequesite curl
      sudo apt-get install curl
    • Install rvm
      \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
    • Modify .bashrc (necessary due to mate-terminal)
      sudo pluma .bashrc
    • Enter as last line
      source /home/ubuntu-mate/.rvm/scripts/rvm
    • Save and leave editor pluma
    • Close the terminal and open a new one
    • Check correct installation of RVM
      type rvm | head -n1
      needs to respond with rvm is a function, otherwise the installation was not successfull
    • Install the latest version of Ruby
      rvm install ruby

  • Install Rails
    gem install rails

  • Other usefull gems are sqlite3 (to use SQLite as a development database), pg (to use PostgreSQL on Heroku), paperclip (for image attachments), devise (for user authentification)

    • The PostgreSQL gem pq need a library intstalled locally as a prerequesite
      sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
      gem install sqlite3 pg paperclip devise

  • Installing Atom Editor
    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/atom
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install atom

  • Install Git and a Gui for Git: Giggle
    sudo apt-get install git giggle

  • Install offline documentation browser Zeal
    sudo apt-get install zeal

    • Install docsets in [File] - [Options] - [Docsets]
    • Probably usefull are Bootstrap 3, CSS, HTML, Javascript, PostgreSQL, Ruby 2, Ruby On Rails 4, SQLite
    • The [Download] Button starts the actual download, the [OK] doesn't.

  • Install Chromium Browser
    sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

  • You can copy menu items from the start menu to the panel via Right-Click on them and
    [Add this launucher to panel]