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.

We've tried:

• OS X El Capitan (10.11)

Older versions may work but aren't regularly tested.

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

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

• Setup RSA Key for Github
• Continue with installation

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

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

• 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).

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.

Laptop is © 2011-2015 thoughtbot, inc. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.

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.