Golang Code Dumpster

This is a repository to keep tutorial/experiments go codes

Install

Download the latest golang binary at https://golang.org/dl/ and unzip it

tar -C /usr/local -xzf go.XXX.tar.gz

Then setup the go environment

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/go/bin
export GOROOT=/usr/local/go
export PATH=$PATH:$GOROOT/bin

And setup a workspace (in this case on $HOME/projects/go)

export GOPATH=$HOME/projects/go
export GOBIN=$GOPATH/bin
export PATH=$PATH:$GOBIN

Running Go Code

To execute a gofile run it directly as below:

go run hello.go

Installing dependencies

Clone this repository on $GOPATH/src/github.com/pedroorez/.

This repo uses Golang's Dep to manage it's dependencies. Install Dep running:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/golang/dep/master/install.sh | sh

This will install a binary on $GOPATH/bin so make sure it's in your $PATH.

After install dep you must run dep ensure inside the repository folder to install all dependencies.

After that just run any go code directly

Adding a new dependencies

After using a new dependencies you must run dep ensure to add the new dependencies to gopkg files.