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If you don't own a Mac, you can use Nitrous.io as your main development environment. Below you'll find the steps you need to take in order to set up your development 'box'.

• Navigate to and sign up for nitrous.io. Sign up, and confirm with two factor authentication.

• Once you've signed up and reach the 'choose a box' page, select the "Ruby on Rails" container, and the 'Free Tier' on the following page. Give your container a name (for example 'learn-code').

• Wait for your workspace and container to be created.
• Click on the link to your box and then on the button that says 'IDE' (which stands for Interactive Development Environment)

• You'll now be in the IDE. It will look something like this:

• Finally, to set up a connection with your github account (so you can clone/push/pull), click on the 'account settings' link on the top right of the screen. Click on the 'add to github' button

• Head back to your container dashboard and click on ssh keys, then connect your container to github

• Last, open up the IDE and run the following lines (with your information) in your console:
  • git config --global user.email "[email protected]"
  • git config --global user.name "Your Username"

You're all set!

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