Laptop

Laptop is a script to set up an OS X laptop for web development. It's based on what thoughtbot did here.

It can be run multiple times on the same machine safely. It installs, upgrades, or skips packages based on what is already installed on the machine.

Requirements

I've tested this on:

macOS Sierra (10.12)

Older versions may work but aren't regularly tested.

Install

Download the script:

curl --remote-name https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thoughtbot/laptop/master/mac

Review the script (avoid running scripts you haven't read!):

less mac

Execute the downloaded script:

sh mac 2>&1 | tee ~/laptop.log

Optionally, review the log:

less ~/laptop.log

Debugging

Your last Laptop run will be saved to ~/laptop.log. Read through it to see if you can debug the issue yourself. If not, let me know; I might be able to help.

What it sets up

macOS tools:

Homebrew for managing operating system libraries
Homebrew Cask for managing Mac applications distributed as binaries from the CLI

Unix tools:

Bash Completion for typing faster
Term for controlling tabs from the command line
Git for version control
Subversion for more version control
OpenSSL for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Watchman for watching for filesystem events

Heroku tools:

Heroku CLI for interacting with the Heroku API

Programming languages, package managers, and configuration:

LibYAML is a YAML 1.1 parser and emitter needed by Ruby
Yarn is a package manager
NVM for running apps and installing JavaScript packages
Java 8 for running big ol' Java apps
Maven for build automation
Ant to help build Java applications
Bundler for managing Ruby libraries
Ruby stable for writing general-purpose code
RVM for managing Ruby environments
Saas for writing useful CSS

Servers:

Tomcat 8 is a "pure Java" HTTP web server environment in which Java code can run.

Databases:

Postgres for storing relational data
MongoDB for storing document-oriented data
Elasticsearch for RESTful search and analytics
Redis for powering our caches

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

Customize in `~/.laptop.local`

Your ~/.laptop.local is run at the end of the Laptop script. Put your customizations there.

For example:

#!/bin/sh

brew bundle --file=- <<EOF
cask "sublime-text"
cask "spectacle"
cask "slack"
cask "sourcetree"
cask "skitch"
cask "sketch"
cask "cyberduck"
cask "balsamiq-mockups"
cask "spotify"
cask "android-file-transfer"
cask "onedrive"
EOF

Write your customizations such that they can be run safely more than once. See the mac script for examples.

Laptop functions such as fancy_echo and gem_install_or_update can be used in your ~/.laptop.local.