Supported languages include Ruby, Node.js, Elixir and more. Supporting a new language is as simple as this plugin API.

Copy-paste the following into command line:

git clone https://github.com/HashNuke/asdf.git ~/.asdf

Depending on your OS, run the following

# For Ubuntu or other linux distros
echo '. $HOME/.asdf/asdf.sh' >> ~/.bashrc
echo '. $HOME/.asdf/completions/asdf.bash >> ~/.bashrc'

# OR for Max OSX
echo '. $HOME/.asdf/asdf.sh' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo '. $HOME/.asdf/completions/asdf.bash >> ~/.bash_profile'

If you use zsh or any other shell, replace .bashrc with the config file for the respective shell.

For most plugins, it is good if you have installed the following packages OR their equivalent on you OS

• OS X: Install these via homebrew automake autoconf openssl libyaml readline libxslt libtool unixodbc
• Ubuntu: automake autoconf libreadline-dev libncurses-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev libxslt-dev libffi-dev libtool unixodbc-dev

That's all ~! You are ready to use asdf

Plugins are how asdf understands how to handle different packages. Below is a list of plugins for languages. There is a super-simple API for supporting more languages.

asdf plugin-add <name> <git-url>
# asdf plugin-add erlang https://github.com/HashNuke/asdf-erlang.git

asdf plugin-list
# asdf plugin-list

asdf plugin-remove <name>
# asdf plugin-remove erlang

asdf plugin-update --all

If you want to update a specific package, just say so.

asdf plugin-update <name>
# asdf plugin-update erlang

asdf install <name> <version>
# asdf install erlang 17.3

asdf which <name>
# asdf which erlang
# 17.3

asdf uninstall <name> <version>
# asdf uninstall erlang 17.3

If a plugin supports downloading & compiling from source, you can also do this ref:foo (replace foo with the branch/tag/commit). You'll have to use the same name when uninstalling too.

asdf list <name>
# asdf list erlang

asdf list-all <name>
# asdf list-all erlang

Add a .tool-versions file to your project dir and versions of those tools will be used. Global defaults can be set in the file $HOME/.tool-versions

This is what a .tool-versions file looks like:

ruby 2.2.0
nodejs 0.12.3

The versions can be in the following format:

• 0.12.3 - an actual version. Plugins that support downloading binaries, will download binaries.
• ref:v1.0.2-a or ref:39cb398vb39 - tag/commit/branch to download from github and compile
• path:/src/elixir - a path to custom compiled version of a tool to use. For use by language developers and such.

To install all the tools defined in a .tool-versions file run the asdf install command with no other arguments in the directory containing the .tool-versions file.

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