# try mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für try in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:try
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install try
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#try
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/tr/try/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:try
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.9.3
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** Quickly manage and navigate project directories for experiments
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/tobi/try>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/tobi/try>
- **Zuletzt aktualisiert:** 2026-06-06T20:23:54-04:00
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- try (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 1.9.3
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

try is a small Ruby command-line tool for creating, finding, and entering fresh directories for short-lived experiments. The README frames it as a one-file script for developers who keep making test directories and want those experiments organized instead of lost in /tmp or scattered across a filesystem.

### Projektgeschichte

The project is maintained in Tobi Lutke's GitHub account and centers on the phrase 'Your experiments deserve a home.' Its implementation and documentation emphasize zero configuration, no runtime dependencies beyond Ruby, and a shell integration that lets the command change the caller's working directory.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

try became visible well beyond a private dotfile script: GitHub shows thousands of stars, the repository includes Homebrew formula material, and the README recommends RubyGems installation as try-cli. It also has a later Rust descendant, try-rs, whose README names this project as the inspiration.

### Wie es verwendet wird

A typical user installs the gem or downloads the script, evaluates the shell init output, and then types partial experiment names. try fuzzy-matches existing experiment directories, ranks recent ones highly, and creates dated directories when no existing match is selected.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

The project is a package-nerd artifact because it turns a personal shell habit into a packaged CLI with RubyGems and Homebrew paths. It is intentionally small, but it influenced the later try-rs rewrite and sits in the lineage of tiny tools that formalize local development rituals.

### Zeitleiste

- 2026: GitHub release v1.9.0 added terminal title behavior for the TUI.
- 2026: The README documents RubyGems as the recommended installation path and manual shell setup as a fallback.

### Related projects

- try-rs is the direct Rust port and re-imagining of try.
- The tool is related to fuzzy directory switchers and shell workspace managers, but focuses specifically on experiment directories.

### Quellen

- <https://github.com/tassiovirginio/try-rs#readme>
- <https://github.com/tobi/try#readme>
- <https://github.com/tobi/try/releases>
- source_facts.package-manager


## Sicherheitshinweise

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Nix - try: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/tr/try/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/try.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/try.yml)


## Quellen

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph