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 support:

OS X Mavericks (10.9)
OS X Yosemite (10.10)
OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Older versions may work but aren't regularly tested. Bug reports for older versions are welcome.

Install

Download, review, then execute the script:

curl --remote-name https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thoughtbot/laptop/master/mac
less mac
sh mac 2>&1 | tee ~/laptop.log

Optionally, install thoughtbot/dotfiles.

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, copy the lines where the script failed into a new GitHub Issue for us. Or, attach the whole log file as an attachment.

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.

What it sets up

Mac OS X tools:

Homebrew for managing operating system libraries.

Unix tools:

Exuberant Ctags for indexing files for vim tab completion
Git for version control
OpenSSL for Transport Layer Security (TLS)
RCM for managing company and personal dotfiles
The Silver Searcher for finding things in files
Tmux for saving project state and switching between projects
Zsh as your shell

Heroku tools:

Heroku Toolbelt and Parity for interacting with the Heroku API

GitHub tools:

Hub for interacting with the GitHub API

Image tools:

ImageMagick for cropping and resizing images

Testing tools:

Qt for headless JavaScript testing via Capybara Webkit

Programming languages and configuration:

Bundler for managing Ruby libraries
Node.js and NPM, for running apps and installing JavaScript packages
Rbenv for managing versions of Ruby
Ruby Build for installing Rubies
Ruby stable for writing general-purpose code

Databases:

Postgres for storing relational data
Redis for storing key-value data

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

Customize in `~/.laptop.local`

Your ~/.laptop.local is run near the end of the Laptop script. Put your customizations there. For example:

#!/bin/sh

brew_install_or_upgrade 'go'
brew_install_or_upgrade 'ngrok'
brew_install_or_upgrade 'watch'

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

See the wiki for more customization examples.

Contributing

Edit the mac file. Document in the README.md file. Follow shell style guidelines by using ShellCheck and Syntastic.

brew install shellcheck

Thank you, contributors!

By participating in this project, you agree to abide by the thoughtbot code of conduct.

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.

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