Do you use soloist?
This simple app will help you build your soloistrc file easily from a (GitHub) directory of recipes.
Typically, this is our workflow for setting up our developer and ci machines:
> mkdir cookbooks && cd cookbooks
> git clone https://github.com/pivotal/pivotal_workstation
# Build a soloistrc file by choosing from recipes in ~/cookbooks/pivotal_workstation/recipes
> gem install soloist
> soloist
Build your soloistrc now at http://soloistrc-builder.herokuapp.com.