thoughtbot dotfiles

Requirements

Set zsh as your login shell:

chsh -s $(which zsh)

Install

Clone onto your laptop:

git clone git://github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles.git

(Or, fork and keep your fork updated).

Install rcm:

brew bundle dotfiles/Brewfile

Install the dotfiles:

env RCRC=$HOME/dotfiles/rcrc rcup

This command will create symlinks for config files in your home directory. Setting the RCRC environment variable tells rcup to use standard configuration options:

Exclude the README.md, LICENSE, and Brewfile files, which are part of the dotfiles repository but do not need to be symlinked in.
Give precedence to personal overrides which by default are placed in ~/dotfiles-local

You can safely run rcup multiple times to update:

rcup

Make your own customizations

Put your customizations in dotfiles appended with .local:

~/.aliases.local
~/.gitconfig.local
~/.gvimrc.local
~/.psqlrc.local (we supply a blank .psqlrc.local to prevent psql from throwing an error, but you should overwrite the file with your own copy)
~/.tmux.conf.local
~/.vimrc.local
~/.vimrc.bundles.local
~/.zshrc.local

For example, your ~/.aliases.local might look like this:

# Productivity
alias todo='$EDITOR ~/.todo'

Your ~/.gitconfig.local might look like this:

[alias]
  l = log --pretty=colored
[pretty]
  colored = format:%Cred%h%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)%an%Creset
[user]
  name = Dan Croak
  email = dan@thoughtbot.com

Your ~/.zshrc.local might look like this:

# recommended by brew doctor
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"

Your ~/.vimrc.bundles.local might look like this:

Plugin 'Lokaltog/vim-powerline'
Plugin 'stephenmckinney/vim-solarized-powerline'

What's in it?

vim configuration:

Ctrl-P for fuzzy file/buffer/tag finding.
Rails.vim for enhanced navigation of Rails file structure via gf and :A (alternate), :Rextract partials, :Rinvert migrations, etc.
Run RSpec specs from vim.
Set <leader> to a single space.
Switch between the last two files with space-space.
Syntax highlighting for CoffeeScript, Textile, Cucumber, Haml, Markdown, and HTML.
Use Ag instead of Grep when available.
Use Exuberant Ctags for tab completion.
Use GitHub color scheme.
Use Vundle to manage plugins.

tmux configuration:

Improve color resolution.
Remove administrative debris (session name, hostname, time) in status bar.
Set prefix to Ctrl+a (like GNU screen).
Soften status bar color from harsh green to light gray.

git configuration:

Adds a create-branch alias to create feature branches.
Adds a delete-branch alias to delete feature branches.
Adds a merge-branch alias to merge feature branches into master.
Adds an up alias to fetch and rebase origin/master into the feature branch. Use git up -i for interactive rebases.

Ruby configuration:

Add trusted binstubs to the PATH.
Load rbenv into the shell, adding shims onto our PATH.

Shell aliases and scripts:

b for bundle.
g with no arguments is git status and with arguments acts like git.
git-churn to show churn for the files changed in the branch.
m for rake db:migrate && rake db:rollback && rake db:migrate && rake db:test:prepare.
mcd to make a directory and change into it.
replace foo bar **/*.rb to find and replace within a given list of files.
rk for rake.
tat to attach to tmux session named the same as the current directory.
v for $VISUAL.

Credits

Thank you, contributors! Also, thank you to Corey Haines, Gary Bernhardt, and others for sharing your dotfiles and other shell scripts from which we derived inspiration for items in this project.