Stream: show and tell

Topic: MacOS Shortcuts script to install roc nightly

view this post on Zulip Jonas Schell (Feb 22 2024 at 23:29):

For MacOS users only
Because, for various reasons, I often have long breaks between roc programming sessions. Often I forget how to install the latest version of roc and where I put the dam update script. To prevent this from happening again, I have ported my little script to a MacOS Shortcut. Nothing fancy, but it helps me to spend the little time I have coding in roc instead of trying to get the latest version.
Normally you can share Shortcuts, but it is currently broken for me, so I took a screenshot for anyone who wants to build it for themselves.
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view this post on Zulip Glenn Lewis (Mar 04 2024 at 18:32):

I did something similar for my Mac M2 Max running Sonoma 14.2 - I'm using bash, so I put this in my ~/.bashrc file:

# Roc programming language: https://www.roc-lang.org/
alias getroc='pushd ~/Downloads && curl -OL https://github.com/roc-lang/roc/releases/download/nightly/roc_nightly-macos_apple_silicon-latest.tar.gz'
installroc() {
    pushd /usr/local
    sudo rm roc
    sudo tar xf ~/Downloads/roc_nightly-macos_apple_silicon-latest.tar.gz
    sudo ln -s $(ls -1 | grep roc | tail -1) roc
    popd
    roc version
}
export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/roc

Then to use it, I type "getroc" followed by "installroc".

view this post on Zulip Hannes (Mar 05 2024 at 09:42):

See this thread for some one liners to install Roc: https://roc.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/231634-beginners/topic/roc.20nightly.20install.20script/near/372762807

Now that the lsp is included in the tar file, I'll see how to modify it to also extract the lsp

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