asdf-python VS rbenv

Point of clarification: asdf uses python-build which is from pyenv.

https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-python?tab=readme-ov-...

[env] # supports arbitrary env vars so mise can be used like direnv/dotenv NODE_ENV = 'production' [tools] # specify single or multiple versions terraform = '1.0.0' erlang = ['23.3', '24.0'] # supports everything you can do with .tool-versions currently node = ['16', 'prefix:20', 'ref:master', 'path:~/.nodes/14'] # send arbitrary options to the plugin, passed as: # MISE_TOOL_OPTS\_\_VENV=.venv python = {version='3.10', virtualenv='.venv'} [plugins] # specify a custom repo url # note this will only be used if the plugin does not already exist python = 'https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-python' [alias.node] # project-local aliases my_custom_node = '20'

Yeah, I should've been more precise. The asdf plugins use parts of existing systems. For example (python/ruby/node)-build which mostly come from other version managers. Asdf does provide extras, but the plugin-specific code is tiny: https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-python/blob/master/bi...

❯ asdf plugin-list --urls --refs act https://github.com/grimoh/asdf-act.git master 8729029 aws-vault https://github.com/beardix/asdf-aws-vault.git master 937a1db awscli https://github.com/MetricMike/asdf-awscli.git main b9ba4c7 docker-slim https://github.com/everpeace/asdf-docker-slim.git master 4ee75a3 golang https://github.com/kennyp/asdf-golang.git master 1f388f1 helm https://github.com/Antiarchitect/asdf-helm.git master 87eef5a java https://github.com/halcyon/asdf-java.git master f0c702f jq https://github.com/ryodocx/asdf-jq.git master 3144577 kubectl https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-kubectl.git master da7bb0b minikube https://github.com/alvarobp/asdf-minikube.git master 8ca7b8d mysql https://github.com/iroddis/asdf-mysql.git master 3aaf756 nodejs https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-nodejs.git master cb61e3d perl https://github.com/ouest/asdf-perl.git master 31bb799 php https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-php.git master 759843b postgres https://github.com/smashedtoatoms/asdf-postgres.git master 4f8b356 python https://github.com/danhper/asdf-python.git master 8ab052f redis https://github.com/smashedtoatoms/asdf-redis.git master bf1276e ruby https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-ruby.git master f134c2d sbt https://github.com/bram2000/asdf-sbt.git master 33f9637 scala https://github.com/asdf-community/asdf-scala.git master 1206055 skaffold https://github.com/virtualstaticvoid/asdf-skaffold.git master c942ecf spark https://github.com/joshuaballoch/asdf-spark.git master 6fe49de

You could look at what a new $PATH file looks like by spinning up a new VM or google around for default path examples. As for your dependency issues, I like to use poetry and asdf to keep things straight.

I use asdf and its Python plugin [1] to install Python interpreter versions.

For managing virtual environments on my preferred shell (Fish), I use (and maintain) VirtualFish [2].

For managing project dependencies, I activate environments via VirtualFish and then use Poetry [3] to update the dependencies within the environments.

[1]: https://github.com/danhper/asdf-python

[2]: http://github.com/justinmayer/virtualfish

[3]: http://python-poetry.org

When I was technical blogging on how to learn from open-source code [1], I used it quite frequently to get unstuck and/or to figure out how to tease apart a large question into multiple smaller functions. For example, I had no idea how to break up this long `sed` command [2] into its constituent parts, so I plugged it into ChatGPT and asked it to break down the code for me. I then Googled the different parts to confirm that ChatGPT wasn't leading me astray.

If I had asked StackOverflow the same question, it would have been quickly closed as being not broadly applicable enough (since this `sed` command is quite specific to its use case). After ChatGPT broke the code apart for me, I was able to ask StackOverflow a series of more discrete, more broadly-applicable questions and get a human answer.

TL;DR- I quite like ChatGPT as a search engine when "you don't know what you don't know", and getting unblocked means being pointed in the right direction.

1. https://www.richie.codes/shell

2. https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv/blob/e8b7a27ee67a5751b899215b...

Let’s get started. I prefer to manage my Ruby installations on my development machine with chruby paired with ruby-install. Another outstanding set of tools is rbenv with ruby-build. I highly recommend installing Ruby with one of those two sets of tools. Follow the instructions on their project’s READMEs. For this article, I’ll be running Ruby (MRI) v3.3.0.

By setting up your environment in isolation, you can prevent yourself from a lot of issues when experimenting with code. It makes your code behave more predictable due to the defined state of the runtime environment you are working with. This article should provide you with enough information to get started, but obviously, there is a lot more power embedded in NVM, Virtual Environment and RBEnv. So make sure to check their documentation.

There is this good resource that also talk about different ruby version manager from the Rbenv repository. With some links to benchmarks of ASDF and Rbenv.

rbenv (my personal favorite)

One suggestion would be to setup your install based on a development environment using git and a Ruby version manager like rvm or rbenv to allows you to setup a user controlled gemset and execution path.

rbenv for Ruby

git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv

On MacOS, I haven't had a problem with character encodings in the terminal in ruby for a while, but used to. When I used to, it had to do with how ruby had been installed, in particular that it needed to be compiled linking against an appropriate readline library. Are you trying to use the ruby that came with debian? You might have more luck installing ruby yourself, and using a ruby version manager. rbenv might be the simplest for you.

For my local machine, I use RVM (head). Other options are rbenv and asdf.