Laptop

Laptop is a script to set up a Mac OS X laptop for Rails development.

Requirements

1. Install a C compiler.

Use Command Line Tools for XCode.

2. Set zsh as your login shell.

   chsh -s /bin/zsh

Install

Run the script:

zsh < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/brightbit/laptop/master/mac)

What it sets up

• Bundler gem for managing Ruby libraries
• Exuberant Ctags for indexing files for vim tab completion
• Heroku Config plugin for local ENV variables
• Heroku Toolbelt for interacting with Heroku apps
• Hub gem for interacting with the GitHub API
• Homebrew for managing operating system libraries (OS X only)
• ImageMagick for cropping and resizing images
• Postgres for storing relational data
• Postgres gem for talking to Postgres from Ruby
• Rails gem for writing web applications
• Ruby stable for writing general-purpose code
• SSH public key for authenticating with Github and Heroku
• The Silver Searcher for finding things in files
• Tmux for saving project state and switching between projects
• Watch for periodically executing a program and displaying the output

It should take less than 15 minutes to install (depends on your machine).

Credits

Original script by thoughtbot at: thoughtbot/laptop.