Laptop

Laptop is a set of scripts to get your Max OS X laptop set up as a Rails development machine.

Install

Uninstall XCode:

sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all

Run our one-liner:

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

SSH public key (for authenticating with services like Github and Heroku)
Homebrew (for managing operating system libraries)
Qt (used by Capybara Webkit for headless JavaScript testing)
Ack (for finding things in files)
Tmux (for saving project state and switching between projects)
Postgres (for storing relational data)
Redis (for storing key-value data)
ImageMagick (for cropping and resizing images)
RVM (for managing versions of the Ruby programming language)
Ruby 1.9.2 stable (for writing general-purpose code)
Bundler gem (for managing Ruby libraries)
Rails gem (for writing web applications)
Heroku gem (for interacting with the Heroku API)
Taps gem (for pushing and pulling SQL databases between environments)
Postgres gem (for making Ruby talk to SQL databases)
Foreman gem (for serving your Rails app locally)
Git Remote Branch gem (for faster git branch creation and deletion)
Heroku accounts plugin (for using multiple Heroku accounts like a client's account)
Heroku config plugin (for pulling config variables locally to be used as ENV variables)

It should take about 30 minutes for everything to install, depending on your machine.