[LRUG] Deleted the contents of ~/.zshrc and ~/.bashrc, system can't find rubygems.

[Jon Wood]

And as a final follow up to this, GNU Stow[1] is an excellent tool to
manage all this, its available on almost any OS you can imagine, and super
simple for taking a bunch of config and symlinking it into place.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/

On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 at 17:28 Sam Livingston-Gray <geeksam at gmail.com> wrote:

> Another unanticipated bonus of storing one's dotfiles in GitHub:  when
> someone asks you "wait, what did you just do?" you can IM or email them a
> link so they can swipe your tricks later.
>
> Also, you can share some of the more amusing bits like so:
> https://github.com/geeksam/dotfiles/blob/master/bash/aliases#L26-L34
>
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Ed Saunders <saunders.ed at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> It's very useful to keep all of your dot files in an git repo, I have one
> dedicated to tmux, zsh, vimrc etc - any changes I make I immediately push.
>
>
> Just to highlight the above point from Luke - I've also found it
> invaluable to commit all my dotfiles and folders (e.g. .vim) to a git repo
> and pushing it up to github.  You can then symlink the actual files in and
> gain all the advantages of version controlling your environment :)!
>
> Very useful for backup purposes and when trying to work out *why* you've
> got some random line in your .bashrc which doesn't seem to make any sense.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ed
>
> On 10 March 2017 at 08:14, Jesse Waites <jesse.waites at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm all set now - I ended up uninstalling rbenv via homebrew, installing
> rbenv, bundle installing, and now my system works again. Thanks all for
> your help, I sincerely appreciate it!
>
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Jesse Waites <jesse.waites at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all - Thanks so much for the advice. I am in Eastern Standard Time
> (Boston area) and just finished meeting with my boss (He is very cool about
> it this thankfully, he kinda laughs and tells me this is why he hardly ever
> tweaks his dotfiles!)
>
> Looks like I will be uninstalling and reinstalling rbenv, or moving to RVM.
>
> In any case, I will take someone up on that Google Hangout now and for the
> rest of the day if someone is still interested and has the time!
>
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 6:50 AM, Nicholas Johnson <me at nicholasjohnson.com>
> wrote:
>
> This is why I typically symlink these files into Dropbox. If my laptop
> falls in the lake, I only have to recreate the symlinks.
>
> Nick
>
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