Setup a Mac OSX for development purposes

07 Apr 2019

Tools to setup:

brew
git
Intellij

1 - Open a terminal & Install brew

https://brew.sh

$ /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

See docs? https://docs.brew.sh

2 - Lets now test that brew is working to install git using brew

$ brew install git

Is it working? git status joeys-MacBook-Pro:workspaces joey$ git status fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

Good!

3 - Download a IDE (Intellij)

https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/#section=mac But oh no, Intellij is looking for a JDK for us??

4 - Downlad a JDK; lets use homebrew for this. In my case I need JDK 8 which is not the latest version.

So, we will use casks for this.

$ brew tap caskroom/versions

$ brew update

$ brew cask install java8

For latest Java:

$ brew cask install java

test its working: joeys-MacBook-Pro:workspaces joey$ java -version java version “1.8.0_202” Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_202-b08) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.202-b08, mixed mode)

5 - Set up SSH connection to GIT

https://help.github.com/en/articles/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent $ ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096 -C “joeyfaherty@live.ie”

$ cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub

paste the output into https://github.com/settings/keys

Enable GIT CLI auto-complete (very useful)

$ curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash -o ~/.git-completion.bash

This will download this file in your home folder. Then, set up your ~/.bash_profile to use this file and also some other useful things.

Create a .bash_profile under your home directory ~/.bash_profile

This is an example of a basic .bash_profile of mine

# settings for your terminal prompt
export PS1='$(whoami)@macbook:`basename $PWD` $'

# uses the git-completion file in your home directory downloaded from here [curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash -o ~/.git-completion.bash
if [ -f ~/.git-completion.bash ]; then
  . ~/.git-completion.bash
fi

alias ll='ls -altr'

alias dockrrm='docker rm -f $(docker ps -aq)'

JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_144.jdk/Contents/Home
export JAVA_HOME

#PATH=$JAVA_HOME:$M3_HOME:/bin$PATH
PATH=/usr/local/bin:$JAVA_HOME:$PATH
export PATH

Run source on the file to active it $ source ~/.bash_profile