Fedora 43 for Rails: Quickstart to a Rails‑Ready Dev Machine

Setting up Fedora 43 for Rails development starts with getting the system up to date and installing the essential packages and tools you'll need. This short guide walks you through updating Fedora, enabling repositories required for AppImages and other third‑party software, and installing a minimal developer toolchain (Ruby, build tools, PostgreSQL headers, Docker, and useful CLI apps) so you can quickly start building Rails applications.

System packages

• Run and install updates

• Add terra repo to fedora

Fuse (needed for AppImages to work)

• https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/FUSE

CLI Apps

• zsh

• sudo dnf install -y zsh
  grep username /etc/passwd
  chsh -s $(which zsh)
  grep username /etc/passwd
  

• neovim

  • sudo dnf install -y neovim python3-neovim

• starship prompt

  • https://starship.rs/

• Claude Code

Gnome Extensions

• sudo dnf install gnome-browser-connector

• ddcutil (Monitor Brightness control)

  • https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2645/brightness-control-using-ddcutil/

Apps I use regularly

• Google chrome

• 1Password

  • Linux App

  • Browser Extensions

• Ghostty

• T3 Code

• Gearlerve: Managing appimages easier

  • https://github.com/mijorus/gearlever

• Distrobox

Dev Tooling

• Docker

  • https://docs.docker.com/engine/install/fedora/

• mise

  • https://mise.jdx.dev/installing-mise.html#fedora-41-rhel-9-centos-stream-9

  • add eval "$(/usr/bin/mise activate)" to .zshrc

• ruby

  • sudo dnf install -y @development-tools rust openssl-devel libyaml-devel zlib-devel gmp-devel

  • sudo dnf install -y postgresql-devel

• Github CLI

  • https://github.com/cli/cli/blob/trunk/docs/install_linux.md