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I use Homebrew for the installation of Ollama. But there are also alternative installation options available, see https://ollama.com/download.
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Homebrew-cask
๐ป A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
Project mention: Popular Mac app 'Bartender' acquired by new unknown developer | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-06-05curl -sSLo /tmp/bartender.rb "https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-cask/blob/ac7bd3c11799ce95a7057796e9d01db81796f381/Casks/b/bartender.rb"
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Yes, I am aware of all of those, although I couldn't offhand tell anyone the difference in tradeoffs between them. But I consider having to install a fresh copy of the whole distribution a grave antipattern. I'm aware that nvm and pyenv default to it and I don't like that
I did notice how Homebrew sets env GEM_HOME=/libexec GEM_PATH=/libexec (e.g. <https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/9f056db169d5f...>) but, similar to my node experience, since I am a ruby outsider I don't totally grok what isolation that provides
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homebrew-bundle
๐ฆ Bundler for non-Ruby dependencies from Homebrew, Homebrew Cask and the Mac App Store.
Project mention: Ask HN: Developer PC setup automations for company owned devices | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-08-29Similar here.
More than onboarding, there is also the question of changing your laptop, and having to setup everything again.
Some pieces of software that help:
- Humble bundle (https://github.com/homebrew/homebrew-bundle) with a `Brewfile` stored in git and shared;
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homebrew-services
๐ Manage background services using the daemon manager launchctl on macOS or systemctl on Linux.
Unlike docker-desktop or podman-desktop, you need to manually start colima every time you log off. You can work around this by using brew-services:
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How is your hosted managed Postgres platform an alternative to Homebrew (Installing PG on your local Mac)? There's also many Homebrew formulas that have PG 17 already like (https://github.com/petere/homebrew-postgresql/commit/2faf438...).
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homebrew-portable-ruby
๐ Versions of Ruby that can be installed and run from anywhere on the filesystem.
Aibika (https://rubygems.org/gems/aibika)
Ignored RubyEncoder because it's commercial
DragonRuby is a whole toolkit, so I am not sure if it offers a quick cli to bundle a ruby script with its gems.
I tried rb2exe (https://rubygems.org/gems/rb2exe) but it required exactly Ruby version 2.2.2 (docker pull txt3rob/ruby-2.2.2-docker)
ruby2exe (https://rubygems.org/gems/ruby2exe) didn't work and looks abandoned
enclose-io/ruby (https://github.com/enclose-io/ruby) doesn't offer installation through RubyGems, same with Ruby-packer (https://github.com/pmq20/ruby-packer), so not going to try it
Portable-ruby (https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-portable-ruby) is just a project where you download a folder which has portable Ruby in it, nothing else. It does not bundle your script with it
RubyMotion costs, so I ignored it
Using TruffleRuby had a bit more steps and was complex, so I skipped it
MRuby did work, but not with the gems I was using, so I had to rely on their own libraries (https://mruby.org/libraries)
Crystal did work on simpler scripts but I had to adjust the code a bit to make it valid for the Crystal compiler.
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homebrew-i386-elf-toolchain
Homebrew formulas for buildling a valid GCC toolchain for the i386-elf target.
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homebrew-kleopatra4mac
Kleopatra4Mac is an all-in-one prebuilt port of KDE's GPG utility for use on MacOS.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Homebrew projects in Ruby? This list will help you:
# | Project | Stars |
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1 | HomeBrew | 42,393 |
2 | Homebrew-cask | 21,108 |
3 | homebrew-core | 13,958 |
4 | homebrew-bundle | 5,453 |
5 | homebrew-php | 2,601 |
6 | homebrew-emacs-plus | 2,449 |
7 | homebrew-services | 2,038 |
8 | homebrew-extensions | 683 |
9 | homebrew-dotnet-sdk-versions | 583 |
10 | homebrew-zathura | 566 |
11 | homebrew-command-not-found | 418 |
12 | homebrew-avr | 405 |
13 | homebrew-fuse | 335 |
14 | homebrew-riscv | 323 |
15 | homebrew-emacs-head | 298 |
16 | homebrew-postgresql | 296 |
17 | homebrew-graph | 222 |
18 | homebrew-portable-ruby | 138 |
19 | homebrew-tap | 137 |
20 | homebrew-php-ext | 122 |
21 | brewdo | 95 |
22 | homebrew-i386-elf-toolchain | 90 |
23 | homebrew-kleopatra4mac | 73 |