Dotfiles

Installation

Steps to install dotfiles on a fresh Mac OS installation:

Install developer tools
```
 xcode-select --install
```

Clone this repository

 mkdir ~/code && git clone https://github.com/alcesleo/dotfiles.git ~/code/dotfiles && cd ~/code/dotfiles

Install things
- rake brew installs most essential software
- rake link installs the configuration
- rake vim:install install all Vim plugins
- rake karabiner:load sets all of the keyboard shortcuts

Once you have your SSH keys installed, switch the protocol

 git remote set-url origin git@github.com:alcesleo/dotfiles.git

Manual steps

Things that I haven't found a way to automate yet.

System Preferences
- Accessibility > Zoom
- Displays > Automatically adjust brightness
iTerm2
- Settings > General > Load preferences from a custom folder
Finder
- Add favourites by drag and drop:
  - ~
  - ~/code
  - ~/Pictures/Screenshots/

Vim

Lint VimScript to be extra clean:

pip install vim-vint
vint --style vimrc

Ruby

rbenv install -l     # List available ruby versions
rbenv install 2.1.2  # Install the ruby you want
rbenv global 2.1.2   # Set it as the default

# Install the global system gems
rake gems

Don't forget to run rbenv rehash after installing a gem that adds commands.

The railsrc and rails_template.rb files take over the rails new command and make it automatically do a lot of things that I tend to do directly after running rails new anyway.

You can also install rbenv-ctags to allow tag jumps into the standard library too.

SSH keys

Make sure to bring your ~/.ssh with you when you reinstall.

If you copied it over and get an error like this:

@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@         WARNING: UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE!          @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
Permissions 0744 for '/home/geek/.ssh/id_rsa' are too open.
It is recommended that your private key files are NOT accessible by others.
This private key will be ignored.
bad permissions: ignore key: /home/geek/.ssh/id_rsa

Then you need to set the permissions correctly, like so:

sudo chmod 600 ~/.ssh/id_rsa*
sudo chmod 644 ~/.ssh/known_hosts
sudo chmod 755 ~/.ssh

It keeps asking for the SSH passphrase

# Make sure ssh-agent is running
$ eval $(ssh-agent)
Agent pid 98949

# Add the key
$ ssh-add

GPG keys

Use GPG Suite to handle GPG keys

If you get this error, you need to uncomment charset utf-8 in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf

gpg: conversion from `US-ASCII' to `utf-8' failed: Illegal byte sequence
gpg: conversion from `utf-8' to `US-ASCII' failed: Illegal byte sequence

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