manage_virtual_environments.md

Managing virtual environments

For managing different versions of python we have pyenv, for node we have nodenv, nvm, for ruby we have rbenv, rvm. asdf provides a unified interface to these *env,*vm tools.

asdf is not only limited to python, nodejs, ruby. It can work for other programming languages. asdf plugin list all lists the plugins supported by asdf for various programming languages and frameworks.

asdf works with .tools-versions as configuration very similar to .python-version of pyenv, .node-version of nodenv, .ruby-version of rbenv.

asdf provides support for pyenv, nodenv through its plugin ecosystem.

Install plugin

• asdf plugin add python installs python plugin for asdf.

Use a plugin

• asdf install python <version> - Install a specific version
• asdf global python <version> - Set global version
• asdf local python <version> - Writes the version to .tool-versions

All the asdf commands can be found here

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References

• Github asdf
• asdf website