Install Sublime and Git Bash

Quick reference

• 00:04 In this video, we're going to start to download the tools we need to create our
• 00:07 development environment.
• 00:09 And Ruby's pretty simple when it comes to its requirements,
• 00:12 we really only need three things.
• 00:13 We need a text editor, something to write our code on.
• 00:16 We need a terminal, something to run our code on.
• 00:18 And we need to download the actual Ruby programming language itself.
• 00:22 So in this video, we're going to download the text editor and the terminal.
• 00:26 So you can use absolutely any text editor that you like.
• 00:30 There are tons of free coding text editors out there,
• 00:33 a lot of people have their own favorite.
• 00:34 My favorite is something called Sublime Text,
• 00:36 it's really kind of the industry standard, the leader.
• 00:39 A lot of people use it, I'd say probably most people use it.
• 00:42 So head over to Google and type in Sublime Text.
• 00:44 Like I said, if you have something else that you like,
• 00:47 absolutely feel free to use it.
• 00:49 You don't have to use Sublime, but it's really good, it works very well,
• 00:52 it's completely free.
• 00:53 Now, it's noticed that I'm on a Windows computer, so
• 00:55 it's offering me the Windows download link.
• 00:57 If you're on Mac or Linux, you'll see the Mac or Linux download link right here.
• 01:01 You can install this for Windows, Mac, or Linux.
• 01:04 Now notice this is Sublime Text 3, build 3207.
• 01:08 If these numbers change by the time you watch this video, perfectly fine,
• 01:11 you can just download the latest version, no big deal.
• 01:13 So let's go ahead and click this to download, and you can save this anywhere,
• 01:17 I'm just going to save it on my desktop, click Save.
• 01:20 Now I'm using Chrome so you can see it downloads right here to the corner.
• 01:23 If you're on Firefox or Safari or some other web browser,
• 01:26 just navigate to wherever you saved the file and double-click it.
• 01:29 But we on Chrome here can just click it right here to install it.
• 01:33 All right, so this is the installation wizard.
• 01:34 There's really just one screen, you just click Next, and then click Install.
• 01:38 Now I've already installed it on my computer, so
• 01:40 I'm not going to install it again.
• 01:41 But you'll go ahead and click this Install button to finish the installation, so
• 01:44 I'll just Cancel for now.
• 01:46 And to run this, just head over to your Windows start menu, type in Sublime, and
• 01:50 it'll pop right up.
• 01:51 This is what it looks like, we'll get into this later, and
• 01:53 I'll show you how to use this.
• 01:55 So now we just need to download a terminal.
• 01:57 And Windows comes with a couple of terminals, the Command Prompt or
• 02:00 PowerShell, and you can use those,
• 02:02 but they're not as good as what I'm going to suggest.
• 02:05 I like something called the Git Bash terminal,
• 02:07 it's very similar to the terminal that runs on Mac or Linux.
• 02:11 So if you have a Mac or Linux, just use the terminal that came with your computer.
• 02:15 You can use it by going to the little search thing on your computer and
• 02:18 typing in terminal, and it'll pop right up.
• 02:20 For us Windows users, let's just head over to Google and type in Git Bash.
• 02:25 And here we see it is git-dcm.com/downloads.
• 02:30 Go ahead and click this, and you'll notice it's version 2.22.0.
• 02:34 If that number is different by the time you watch this video,
• 02:37 no big deal, just download the latest version.
• 02:40 And again, you'll notice there's a Mac or Linux version.
• 02:42 If you have a Mac or Linux, again, I don't recommend that you download this.
• 02:45 You just don't need to,
• 02:46 you could just use the terminal that comes with your computer.
• 02:49 They work almost identically, so it really doesn't matter.
• 02:52 But for us Windows users, go ahead and click this download link, and
• 02:56 it'll pop up in a second here, save it anywhere.
• 02:58 I'm just going to save it to my desktop, and this is a notoriously slow download.
• 03:03 It's 44 megabytes, which is not very big,
• 03:05 you can see it's taking a few seconds to download.
• 03:08 We'll just wait a second here, and it's finished, so
• 03:10 we can click it to install it.
• 03:12 So go ahead and accept the license, now,
• 03:13 there are a lot of screens on this installation wizard.
• 03:16 And we just want the defaults for everything, so
• 03:18 we're just going to click Next a bunch of times.
• 03:21 So before we do that, though, the first thing it asks for
• 03:23 is what text editor you're using.
• 03:25 Now, we happen to be using Sublime Text, which is the default.
• 03:29 But if you're using something else, you don't have to come in here and find it.
• 03:33 Right, just leave it as Sublime,
• 03:35 because these two things don't interact in any way, just ignore that and click Next.
• 03:39 And then let's just go through here, Next, Next, Next, Next, Next, Next, Next.
• 03:45 And finally you get to this last screen, and go ahead and
• 03:48 click Install to finish installing.
• 03:50 I've already installed this on my computer, so I'm not going to do that, but
• 03:52 you'll go ahead and do that.
• 03:53 For now, I'm just going to cancel out of here, and that's pretty much it.
• 03:56 To run this just head over to your Windows start menu, and type in Git Bash,
• 04:01 that's G-I-T-B-A-S-H, right?
• 04:03 And when you do, it'll pop right up, click on it, and this is what it looks like.
• 04:07 We'll get into this in the next couple of videos, I'll show you how to use this.
• 04:10 That's it, those are the two tools that we need to program in Ruby on our computer.
• 04:16 So in the next video, we'll download and install the actual Ruby programming
• 04:19 language itself, and then we'll be ready to go.

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