OS: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

Config is a basic checklist I follow to set up a new Ubuntu's development environment. It gets me up to speed with Git, Ruby, GitHub, Jekyll, and more so I can more quickly get back to coding.

• Update OS packages: $ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

• Install Ruby: $ sudo apt-get ruby

Or,

• Install Ruby Version Manager (RVM):

$ gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3

$ \curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby

$ source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm

Installing Specific Ruby and Rails Versions:

rvm install ruby_version
rvm list
rvm use ruby_version

• Install Bundler gem: $ sudo gem install bundler
• Place the Gemfile in the project folder and install gem: $ bundle install

• Install Node.js: $sudo apt-get install nodejs

You need to manually create a symlink /usr/bin/node. Shortcut for bash compatible shells:

$ sudo ln -s `which nodejs` /usr/bin/node

Or if you use non-standard shells, just hardcode the path you find with which nodejs:

$ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

• Install Grunt command line tools: sudo npm install -g grunt-cli

• Install Atom: $ sudo apt-get atom

• Load .bashrc and .gitconfig into the global directory.
• Base16 Ocean dark theme for GNOME Terminal: For installation just execute desired command below. Be careful, terminal will be closed after install.

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MilanAryal/config/master/base16-ocean-theme/gnome-terminal/base16-ocean.dark.sh && . base16-ocean.dark.sh

• Check unlimited scrolling on GNOME Terminal: Go to Profile Preferences > Scrolling > Scrollback > Check Unlimited.

• On Terminal: Try, right click on terminal. Go to Profiles > Profile Preferences then left click. You will got new window. On General tab you have option Use custom default terminal size. Check option and change size of terminal. Go to close. Close terminal. Open terminal. New opened terminal will be in size your specified.

• Install Ocean dark theme for gedit, and Atom.

• Prevent gedit from creating backup files with the ~ (tilde) suffix: Turn off these automatic backups by going into Edit > Preferences and unchecking the Create backup copies of files before saving option under the Editor tab.

• Add the unwanted connections lists on hosts file /etc/hosts and flush DNS. You need root permission to do it, $ sudo gedit /etc/hosts.

How to flush DNS in Ubuntu?

Install nscd using the following command if not yet

sudo apt-get install nscd

Flush DNS Cache in Ubuntu by restarting the nscd

sudo /etc/init.d/nscd restart

If you want to use this configuration on your machine, please be sure to change your .gitconfig name and email address!