Laptop

Laptop is a script to set up an OS X laptop for web development.

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

We've tried:

OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Older versions may work but aren't regularly tested.

PreInstall

Install Xcode from the Mac App Store
Install the Command Line Tools for your OS/Xcode version

Install

Download, review, then execute the script:

cd ~
curl --remote-name https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hyfn/laptop/master/mac
curl --remote-name https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hyfn/laptop/master/example-laptop.local
less example-laptop.local
mv example-laptop.local .laptop.local

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

Optionally, install thoughtbot/dotfiles. You may also use Garrett's local dotfile overrides

PostInstall

Setup RSA Key for Github
Continue with installation

Debugging

Your last Laptop run will be saved to ~/laptop.log.

OS X El Capitan (10.11)

You may have problems installing Homebrew for the first time on OS X El Capitan due to permission changes to the /usr directory (within which the Homebrew installation is typically located). See the Homebrew El Capitan troubleshooting instructions for steps to resolve the permissions issues that interfere with Homebrew's installation.

Note: You shouldn't have any problems with a up-to-date machine as of 11/2015

What it sets up

Bundler for managing Ruby libraries
Exuberant Ctags for indexing files for vim tab completion
Foreman for managing web processes
hub for interacting with the GitHub API
Heroku Toolbelt for interacting with the Heroku API
Homebrew for managing operating system libraries
ImageMagick for cropping and resizing images
Node.js and NPM, for running apps and installing JavaScript packages
Postgres for storing relational data
MySql for storing relational data in HYFN8 Classic
SQLite for storing relational data in quick prototyping
Memcached Distributed memory object caching system
Qt for headless JavaScript testing via Capybara Webkit
Rbenv for managing versions of Ruby
RCM for managing company and personal dotfiles
Redis for storing key-value data
Ruby Build for installing Rubies
Ruby stable for writing general-purpose code (versions: 1.9.3 and 2.2.3)
The Silver Searcher for finding things in files
Tmux for saving project state and switching between projects
Zsh as your shell
Sequel Pro database management application for working with MySQL databases
Pgweb Web-based PostgreSQL database browser
iTerm2 a terminal emulator for Mac OSX
HipChat Group and private chat, file sharing, and integrations

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

gem_install_or_update 'parity'

brew_install_or_upgrade 'tree'
brew_install_or_upgrade 'watch'

brew_cask_install_or_upgrade 'firefox'

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, brew_install_or_upgrade, and gem_install_or_update can be used in your ~/.laptop.local.

See the wiki for more customization examples.

License

About thoughtbot

Laptop is maintained and funded by thoughtbot, inc. The names and logos for thoughtbot are trademarks of thoughtbot, inc.

We are passionate about open source software. See our other projects. We are available for hire.

hyfn/laptop