Laptop

Laptop is a playbook to set up an OS X laptop (for web development).

It installs and configures most of the software I use on my Mac for web and software 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

Tested on:

OS X El Capitan (~10.11.0)

Installation

Fast Install

If you'd like to start with my default list of tools and apps (see Included Apps/Config below), then simply install with;

sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jessmartin/laptop/master/install.sh)"

You can always customize the install after-the-fact (see below), and re-run the playbook. It will skip over any installed apps.

Custom Install

If you want to add/remove to the list of apps/utils installed, its pretty straightforward.

As above, download and bootstrap the script. But stop it before it starts ansible, and edit the playbook as desired, before re-running ansible.

Grab and start the bootstrap script. Let it install the prereqs and clone the full siyelo/laptop repo locally...
```
 sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jessmartin/laptop/master/install.sh)"
```

Stop the script (Ctrl+C) when ansible asks for the a 'sudo' password.

 ```
 Changing to laptop repo dir ...

 Running ansible playbook ...
 SUDO password:  ^c

 ```

Change into the cloned repo dir
```
 cd laptop
```
Edit playbook.yml and add/remove the apps/utils you want.
```
 vi playbook.yml
```

Kick off ansible manually

 ansible-playbook playbook.yml -i hosts --ask-sudo-pass -vvvv

You can do this as many times as you like and re-run the ansible-playbook command. Ansible is smart enough to skip installed apps, so subsequent runs are super fast.

What This Script Does

Installs Applications

Apps installed with Homebrew Cask:

1password
adium
alfred # | http://www.alfredapp.com
caffeine # prevent mac from sleeping
cheatsheet # know your shortcuts
cyberduck # ftp, s3, openstack
dropbox # a worse Mega Sync
eve # learn your shortcuts
firefox
flux # get more sleep
fluid
github
google-chrome
google-drive
google-hangouts
handbrake # vid compression
iterm2
licecap # GIFs !
macvim # a shittier vim
monolingual # remove unneeded osx lang files
nvalt # fast note taking
qlcolorcode # quick look syntax highlighting
qlimagesize # quick look image dimensions
qlmarkdown # quick look .md files
qlstephen # quick look extension-less text files
rdio
scroll-reverser
shortcat # kill your mouse
sizeup
skitch
skype #
smcfancontrol
sublime-text3 # (experimental cask) | http://www.sublimetext.com/
truecrypt
ubersicht
vagrant # | https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
virtualbox # | https://www.virtualbox.org/
vlc
vmware-fusion

Packages/Utilities

Things installed with Homebrew:

ack
autoconf
boot2docker # for running docker on osx
brew-cask
cowsay # amazing
coreutils
docker
findutils
hub
mongodb
mysql
neo4j
openssl
phantomjs
postgresql
readline
redis
rsync
tmux
vim
wget

System Settings

It also installs a few useful system preferences/settings/tweaks with a toned-down verson of Matt Mueller's OSX-for Hackers script.

It does some reasonably gnarly stuff e.g.

hide spotlight icon
disable app Gate Keeper
change stand-by delay from 1hr to 12hrs.
Set trackpad tracking rate.
Set mouse tracking rate.
and lots more...

so you need read it very carefully first. (see scripts/system_settings.sh)

TODO: moar sick settings with https://github.com/ryanmaclean/OSX-Post-Install-Script

Sets up dotfiles

It then syncs your user prefs with dotfiles+rcm

It grabs the thoughttbot/dotfiles repo, saves it in ~/src/thoughtbot/dotfiles and symlinks it to ~/dotfiles.

It then grabs glennr/dotfiles repo, saves it in ~/src/glennr/dotfiles and symlinks it to ~/dotfiles-local

You probably want to change the dotfile_repo_username variable to match your github username :-)

It then runs rcup to initialize your dotfiles.

MANUAL: Installs Apps from App Store

These apps only available via the App Store. (sigh)

TODO: Port bork : https://github.com/mattly/bork/blob/master/types/macstore.sh and do this automagically!

Clocks
Keynote
iMovie
Kindle
Microsoft Remote Desktop
Twitter
Slack
Pocket
Wunderlist
Simplenote
Pomodoro One
Pages
Numbers

Application Settings (WIP)

Keep your application settings in sync.

TODO: Add Mackup task

MANUAL: Install Google Chrome Extensions

StayFocused
Hangouts
Greenhouse
Pocket
Kimono
Github Selfies
Rapportive

TODO: Write script to open all Chrome extension URLs in separate tabs to speed installation.

Other

install fonts like a boss : http://lapwinglabs.com/blog/hacker-guide-to-setting-up-your-mac
TODO: Install Sublime Package Manager.

Development

You shouldn't wipe your entire workstation and start from scratch just to test changes to the playbook.

Instead, you can follow theses instructions for how to build a Mac OS X VirtualBox VM, on which you can continually run and re-run this playbook to test changes and make sure things work correctly.

Approach

We've tested it using an OSX 10.10 Vagrant/Virtualbox VM for developing & testing the Ansible scripts.

Simply spin up the El Capitan box in a VM, and have vagrant kick off the laptop setup.

Whats included?

Nada. Well not much. The whole point is to test the process of getting our OSX dev machines from zero to hero.

The Vagrant box we use is a clean-ish install of OSX. However the setup notes above uses Packer, which installs Xcode CLI tools. This can't be automated in an actual test run, and needs user intervention to install.

Test Setup

Get Homebrew Cask
```
 brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
```

Install Vagrant

 brew cask install --appdir="/Applications" vagrant

Install VirtualBox;

 brew cask install --appdir="/Applications" virtualbox

cd into this project directory;

Run

 vagrant init http://files.dryga.com/boxes/osx-yosemite-10.10.3.0.box;

The Vagrantfile should be ready as soon as Vagrant downloads the box;
Start VM
```
 vagrant up
```

Notes

VirtualBox doesn't have Guest additions for Mac OS X, so you can't have shared folders. Instead you can use normal network shared folders.

If you are rolling your own box with the OSX VM template, this is the Packer config;

```
packer build \
  -var iso_checksum=aaaabbbbbbcccccccdddddddddd \
  -var iso_url=../out/OSX_InstallESD_10.10.4_14E46.dmg \
  -var update_system=0 \
  -var autologin=true \
  template.json
```

Author

Original author: Glenn Roberts, 2015.
This fork: Jess Martin

Credits

This project is based off the work of the following folks;

Eduardo de Oliveira Hernandes' ansible-macbook
Jeff Geerlings' Mac Dev Ansible Playbook
Thoughtbot/laptop (boostrapping, dev tools)
OSX for Hackers (awesome osx tweaks)
Mackup (backup/restore App settings)

See also:

Battleschool is a more general solution than what I've built here. (It may be a better option if you don't want to fork this repo and hack it for your own workstation...).
osxc is another more general solution, set up so you can fork the xc-custom repo and get your own local environment bootstrapped quickly.
MWGriffin/ansible-playbooks was the original inspiration for this repository, but this project has since been completely rewritten.