Daily Note - January 21, 2022

Business

• Continued improving the Ruby on Mac premium script in preparation for the Zoom session.

• During the session, they explained that this was a company-issued Mac with certain things pre-installed on it. They had previously tried wiping the computer and reinstalling macOS on it, and my basic script failed to install Ruby. When I heard that, I was doubtful that the premium script would work.

• Indeed, the premium script failed in the same way. During the Ruby installation, it fails with cannot compute sizeof (size_t). I did some research but couldn’t find anything specific to Ruby. It seems other people have seen this error when installing Python, and it seems due to not having the CLT installed, or the CLT being in a bad state, or maybe things not pointing to the right libraries, such as using the Apple SSL instead of the one installed by Homebrew.

• I know for a fact that my script works on all M1 flavors because I send people to a survey the first time the script completes successfully, and I ask what kind of processor they have. I’ve had responses that cover all M1 flavors.

• There was another person a while back with a company-issued laptop who was able to install Ruby with my script, but then couldn’t install any gems. It turned out to be an SSL certificate issue. They were missing some certs. When the client today mentioned they had a company laptop, that reminded me of that issue and I suspect that whatever got put on the computer is messing things up.

• He said he would ask if they could remove that extra stuff since it’s preventing him from doing his job. After our meeting, I asked him to try installing Node to see if the problem is just with Ruby. Waiting to hear back.

• This was a worthwhile session since I learned that my script might not work depending on what was put on the machine. I’ll need to add a disclaimer to the guarantee that it might not work on company-issued computers that pre-install certain things.

• Private repos under org in GitHub do not allow forking by default. I need to turn that on if I want to allow that.

• Continued searching for logo designers on Fiverr. There were very few that caught my eye. The only one that matched the aesthetic, creativity and quality I’m looking for was ei8htz. I will contact them tomorrow.

• Started compiling list of differences between each tier:

  Basic

  • installs minimal toolset (Homebrew, chruby, ruby-install, latest Ruby, Git, GH CLI)
  • includes detailed troubleshooting doc that will result in a successful installation, but means spending a lot of time doing things manually.
  • no support
  • read-only access
  • cannot fork the repo

  Plus

  • everything in basic
  • customizable so you can add and maintain your own tools and scripts
  • comes with starter custom script that installs everything you need for Rails (Postgres, Node, nodenv, Yarn), and Jekyll.
  • no support
  • read-only access
  • cannot fork the repo

  Prime

  • everything in Plus
  • guaranteed successful installation or I fix it personally for you over Zoom (excludes company-issued Macs with fishy things pre-installed on it)
  • complete Git setup
  • reset mode to start over from scratch
  • includes support (via GitHub issues and maybe Slack community)
  • private Slack community?
  • write access if you want to contribute to the script
  • can fork the repo
  • team license
  • automatically create a Rails app ready to be deployed to Heroku (coming soon)
  • automatically create a Jekyll site and deploy it to Netlify or GitHub Pages (coming soon)
  • automatically create a Bridgetown site configured for esbuild and Tailwind, and deploy it to Netlify (coming soon)

To Do

• create rom-basic repo and add troubleshooting doc
• create rom-plus repo: everything from basic, plus customization, Rails, Jekyll
• add Git setup to rom-prime
• figure out how to invite collaborators so that it comes from rubyonmac not monfresh
• remove “start over from scratch” section from troubleshooting doc in rom-prime since script takes care of it. just mention that you can run in reset mode.
• test LemonSqueezy license validation API

Home

• Watched first episode of latest season of Ozark on Netflix. Not bad.

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