Improve Installation Documentation & Experience for Windows/Linux Users about amber

[a-alhusaini]

I'll assume that WSL2 is synonymous with Ubuntu. (most of the tutorials that show you how to setup WSL2 end up showing you how to install ubuntu)

First, get crystal setup on your machinee by following the steps outlined here: https://crystal-lang.org/install/on_ubuntu/
Then, get postgres installed from the official ubuntu repositories or your source of choice.
Then, create a new crystal project with crystal init
Then, add the amber shard to your project
Install the shard.

Aaaand thats it! It sounds like a lot of stuff but setting up a script for it shouldn't be too hard. I hope...

[a-alhusaini]

This video is an excellent template. Just replace the elixir installation steps with crystal installation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyqYD0TP92s

I'd love to sit down and make a step by step tutorial that takes you from installing wsl to having a sparkling new amber project but I'm travelling with a mac and will get access to a windows machine a week from now. I could write steps from memory but we'll need someone else to double check that they are accurate.

[crimson-knight]

@a-alhusaini thank you! That's basically my plan as well, written instructions are great but people also really love video. I just finished upgrading my setup so I can do high-quality screencasts to help introduce Amber.

I have an M1 Pro Mac, so I'll have to use VM to create the Windows tutorial screencast. If you have the recent update to date installation steps I'd gladly use them as part of the screen cast to verify they are complete.

[codered]

I believe the original question has been answered within the comments. There has been no activity since April so it can be closed.