Laptop

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

Requirements

We support:

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

Install

Set up vagrant box first

vagrant init thoughtbot/ubuntu-14-04-server
vagrant up
vagrant ssh

Read, then run the script:

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yosemsweet/laptop/master/mac) 2>&1 | tee ~/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, copy the lines where the script failed into a new GitHub Issue for us. Or, attach the whole log file as an attachment.

What it sets up

Bundler for managing Ruby libraries
Exuberant Ctags for indexing files for vim tab completion
Foreman for serving Rails apps locally
gh 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
NVM for managing versions of Node.js
Parity for development, staging, and production parity
Postgres for storing relational data
PhantomJS for headless JavaScript testing via Poltergeist
Rails gem for writing web applications
Rbenv for managing versions of Ruby
Redis for storing key-value data
Ruby Build for installing Rubies
Ruby stable for writing general-purpose code
The Silver Searcher for finding things in files
Tmux for saving project state and switching between projects
Watch for periodically executing a program and displaying the output
Zsh as your shell

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

Laptop can be run multiple times on the same machine safely. It will upgrade already installed packages and install and activate a new version of ruby (if one is available).

How this fork differs from the Thoughtbot Laptop script

Removed QT
Added PhantomJS
Use homebrew for rbenv and ruby-build (proactivelly merge in thoughtbot#324)

Further considerations

Either we standardize on using ~/.bin instead of ~/bin for local user binaries, or modify the script to use ~/bin
Remove installing the suspenders gem

Make your own customizations

Put your customizations in ~/.laptop.local. For example, your ~/.laptop.local might look like this:

#!/bin/sh

brew tap caskroom/cask
brew install brew-cask

brew cask install dropbox
brew cask install google-chrome
brew cask install rdio

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

Credits

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

Thank you, contributors!

Contributing

Edit the mac file.

yosemsweet/laptop