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

[Jesse Waites]

Yeah, its kinda funny - I took thoughtbot's immersive rails course years
ago and I would *constantly* hear the developers there talking about their
dotfiles. It went over my head at the time and I didnt want to increase the
surface area of stuff I was learning at once, so I let most of the dotfiles
talk go in one ear and out the other. Looks like they got the last laugh on
that one! I will definitely be storing my dotfiles going forward. What a
wreck that turned in to, I completely did not anticipate or understand the
importance of these files. I ended up having to uninstall rbenv, install
rvm, and rebundle install all of my gems. Disaster.

On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 1:28 PM, 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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