It seems like the instructions here should include manually setting up an SSH key with Github.

Let's consider recommending Atom. No need for people to pay $70 for not understanding how nag-ware works.

User: mike-henrich

Batch: vfa-2015

Current Lesson: Mac OS X Environment Setup

Location: https://learn.co/tracks/vfa-new-developer-training/getting-started/overview/mac-os-x-environment-setup?track_id=7538&batch_id=104

Bug Description: Just a typo - feel free let me know if there's a better place to report this. In the Getting Started > Navigating the Command Line > Study Guide, section "Copy Copy Copy with CP", the command should read "cp apple.txt dragon_cage" (I think). Having so much fun using this!

Hi,

I had some major problems installing and setting up the environment for Ruby. When I tried to install using the GUI the learn.co gem wouldn't run because of some dependency issues. Then I looked and it didn't show Ruby or RVM (or a handful of other things as having been successfully installed, though Ruby and RVM indeed were installed and (before I used your installer) working. After a few hours struggling with this I decided to install a clean version of OSX on a new partition and see if it was just my failure to correctly install software previously that was the problem. After installing the environment with your software on a clean install of the latest version of OSX, four of your "lights" were red, including RVM and Ruby.

In my case, so far I've hit one main issue, which is that setup doesn't seem to have installed the learn-co gem. I ran gem install learn-co and problem solved of course, but I wonder if it might be helpful to have that course correction right there in the page, especially since in some cases it's super simple (and not getting what you expect as output can be intimidating this early on).

(I was also running the wrong version of Ruby (2.2.1), and needed to update and change my default. The page doesn't really address this, simply assumes you got 2.2.2. Unsure if this matters enough to be worth explaining as well.)

Happy to submit this particular edit (the missing gem) myself if it sounds correct. Just unsure if there's a larger plan here that left this sort of info out on purpose.

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Why am I seeing everything to set things up for an Apple computer? I can not go back, and Lesson 5 is for setting up in an Apple environment.

We've had quite a few students ask if learn was installed correctly when they get the following message:

Connecting to Learn...
Authenticating...
You don't appear to be in a Learn lesson's directory. Please cd to an appropriate directory and try again.

The current text tells them that as long as they don't get a clang error, they're fine. I would specifically mention the language above and tell them that means that Learn is correctly installed and that they will see how it works when they get to the "First Learn Lab" lesson in a bit.

.. links to a page you "Don't have access to this lesson".

Just wanted to let you know,

all the best,

Nikola

Is there a windows version of the Learn application? If not how do I go about getting the requisite software.