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

This short guide helps you get a Fedora 43 workstation ready for Rails development. It covers updating your system, enabling repositories needed by AppImages and other third‑party software, and installing a minimal developer toolchain (Ruby support, build tools, PostgreSQL headers, Docker) plus a few useful CLI apps and GNOME extensions so you can start building Rails apps quickly.

## Why Fedora?

*   Fedora has struck a nice balance between good defaults, reasonably updated library as well as stability.
    
*   It lets you be on the cutting edge as much as you want which can be a lot or nothing, that's up-to you.
    

### Why this specific setup?

*   I like a certain mix of fonts, themes and apps to feel fully productive. This list is present only to act as an inspiration and a reminder for me :D
    

### Run and Install updates

```plaintext
sudo dnf update -y
```

### Enable Terra repo for access to wide variety of packages

```plaintext
sudo dnf install --nogpgcheck --repofrompath 'terra,https://repos.fyralabs.com/terra$releasever' terra-release
```

### Add packages required for AppImages

```plaintext
https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/FUSE
```

## Gnome Extensions

Install the **gnome-browser-connector** to install extensions directly from [extensions.gnome.org](http://extensions.gnome.org)

```plaintext
sudo dnf install gnome-browser-connector
```

[Brightness Control using DDCUtil](https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/2645/brightness-control-using-ddcutil/)

[Automatic Theme Switcher](https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/8675/automatic-theme-switcher/)

### Must Have Apps:

*   LocalSend
    
*   Bazaar - Flathub AppStore
    
*   Ghostty - Terminal Replacement
    
*   Vicinae - Inspired from Raycast brings superior search to Linux
    
*   Yaak/Bruno - Postman alternative
    
*   Obsidian
    
*   1Password
    

## Terminal Setup

### Install Zsh and change shell to Zsh

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

### CLI Apps:

*   Neovim
    
    *   `sudo dnf install -y neovim python3-neovim`
        

*   [Zoxide](https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide): cd command on steroids
    

*   [Atuin CLI](https://docs.atuin.sh/cli/guide/installation/) - command history search on steroids
    

*   starship
    

*   ripgrep
    
*   fzf
    
*   mise
    
    *   `sudo dnf copr enable jdxcode/mise`  
        `sudo dnf install mise`
        
*   jq
    
*   delta - git pager ([https://dandavison.github.io/delta/installation.html](https://dandavison.github.io/delta/installation.html))
    

## Software Development Tools:

*   Claude Code
    
*   Zed
    
*   OpenCode
    
*   Codex
    

### Firefox extensions:

*   [Always Right](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/always-right/)
    

### Ricing Gnome:

Gnome Shell Themes:

*   Flat Remix Dark
    
*   Marble Shell
    

Icon Themes:

*   Papirus Icons
    
*   Kora
    

Cursor themes:

*   Capitane Cursors