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How I upgrade my Mac for development in Catalina macOS

SaKKo on November 13, 2019

My previous post How I setup my Mac for development will work just fine with older macOS. I also made a video, check it out if you have trouble in...

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Brendan Gillies • Dec 25 '19

Thanks for this article. I'm having issues with installing RVM the way you have described.... I always get this error:

mkdir: /User_Provile.rvm/src: Read-only file system

Did you run into this? I have followed the same procedure described.

Brendan Gillies • Dec 26 '19

It looks like my .rvm folder was moved into the "Relocated Items" folder on my desktop as part of the Catalina upgrade... Can't figure out where to move this folder to make it compatible again.

SaKKo • Dec 26 '19

i always clean install new OS to prevent this. Not sure if you can just delete it and reinstall r again.

Brendan Gillies • Dec 26 '19 • Edited

Do you mind sharing what the path to your .rvm folder installs to through your process so that I can verify that I've moved it to the same location

PatricNox • Nov 13 '19

Additional:

Xcode needs to be updated
------------ developer.apple.com/download/

NFS in docker
----------- firehydrant.io/blog/nfs-with-docke...

Endpoint security VPN
---------- supportcontent.checkpoint.com/file...

Also sadly Apache Directory Studio does not work with Catalina so a replacement is needed if used.

⚫️ nothingness negates itself • Oct 12 '20 • Edited

cool list and workflow, love Alfred

i use zshell now with pyenv, rbenv and nvm, as you do. i always install klange's nyancat. i use spacevim with coc, ack, ctags, etc. tho

i replace Preview with Skim for my PDF viewer and use Digital Color Meter in my Dock.

karabiner no longer works for me in Catalina to change my CAPS LOCK to ESCAPE, but i usually do that, or also set CAPS LOCK double-tap to L_CTRL

there's OS X for Hackers, which has some relevant bits: gist.github.com/erikh/2260182

oh, and tmux and its plugins, like integration with fzf; lovely stuff

Mateusz Jarzyna • Nov 13 '19

Few years ago I've also installed everything manually, but now I know how to docker databases and so on. My life is much, much easier. Especially when you have to use same database with different version for different projects.