#308 Oh My ZSH

Dec 19, 2011 | 9 minutes | Tools

As Rails developers, we frequently use the command line. Here I will show how to switch to Z Shell using Oh My ZSH including how to make your own theme and plugins.

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Correction: Maintaining the current directory when opening a new tab is a new feature in OS X Lion Terminal, not Oh My ZSH. That's what I get for switching to both at the same time.

          bash
        
ps
wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | sh
curl -L https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh | sh
mate ~/.zshrc
cat ~/.bash_profile >> ~/.zshrc
mate ~/.oh-my-zsh

          .zshrc
        
# Path to your oh-my-zsh configuration.
ZSH=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh

# Set name of the theme to load.
# Look in ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/
# Optionally, if you set this to "random", it'll load a random theme each
# time that oh-my-zsh is loaded.
ZSH_THEME="rbates"

# Uncomment following line if you want to disable colors in ls
DISABLE_LS_COLORS="true"

# Which plugins would you like to load? (plugins can be found in ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/*)
# Example format: plugins=(rails git textmate ruby lighthouse)
plugins=(git bundler brew gem rbates)

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

# Customize to your needs...

export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"
eval "$(rbenv init -)"

          .oh-my-zsh/themes/rbates.zsh-theme
        
PROMPT='%3~$(git_prompt_info)%# '

ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_PREFIX="["
ZSH_THEME_GIT_PROMPT_SUFFIX="]"

          .oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/rbates/rbates.plugin.zsh
        
c() { cd ~/code/$1; }
_c() { _files -W ~/code -/; }
compdef _c c