dotfiles

My dotfiles are managed with rcm. The thoughtbot blog post for rcm is here.

Getting Started

Instructions from the rcm README.

# install rcm
brew tap thoughtbot/formulae
brew install rcm

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:martin-frost/thoughtbot-rcm
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rcm

Now that I have rcm, clone my dotfiles.

git clone https://github.com/curtisalexander/dotfiles.git ~/code/dotfiles

After cloning, copy the rcrc.

cp ~/code/dotfiles/rcrc ~/.rcrc

Symlink the cloned directory.

ln -s ~/code/dotfiles/ ~/.dotfiles

Run the appropriate install script depending upon whether running on MacOS or Ubuntu.

cd bin

# macos
install-dotfiles-macos

# ubuntu
install-dotfiles-ubuntu

The last step in each of the scripts above is to run rcup. This will create symlinks from ~/.dotfiles to your home directory.

Anytime that rcup is run — whether it is after the initial setup or after a regular update — the script hooks/post-up is run.

To create a symlink from ~/.dotfiles to your home directory run the following.

rcup -v

Add a new rc file to the ~/.dotfiles directory.

mkrc ~/.netrc

After adding to the ~/.dotfiles directory, create the appropriate symlink.

rcup -v