Install bob

Bob is a single binary and requires to be in your $PATH. Depending on your system run the following commands:

Linux

wget https://github.com/benchkram/bob/releases/download/0.5.0/bob_0.5.0_linux_amd64

chmod +x bob_0.5.0_linux_amd64

cp bob_0.5.0_linux_amd64 /usr/local/bin/bob

MacOS

wget https://github.com/benchkram/bob/releases/download/0.5.0/bob_0.5.0_darwin_amd64

chmod +x bob_0.5.0_darwin_amd64

Windows

Technically it is possible to support Windows, but we do not take any efforts to make it Windows compatible right now.

To confirm that everything went fine, just run:

bob --version

You should get a message about current bob version.

Install Nix

bob requires Nix to install project dependencies, so before using bob make sure you have Nix installed.

You can install Nix by running:

sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --no-daemon

Above command will perform a single-user installation of Nix, meaning that /nix is owned by the invoking user. You should run this under your usual user account, not as root. The script will invoke sudo to create /nix if it doesn't already exist.

To verify your installation type:

nix --version

You should get a message with current Nix version installed.

Autocompletion

For bash add this to .bashrc:

source <(bob completion)

For zsh add this to .zshrc:

source <(bob completion -z)

To start your journey with bob continue to Quick Start.