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 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.
Download, review, then execute the script:
curl --remote-name https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nathanborgo/laptop/master/mac
less mac
sh mac 2>&1 | tee ~/laptop.log
Optionally, install thoughtbot/dotfiles.
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.
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.
- 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
- 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
- The Silver Searcher for finding things in files
- Tmux for saving project state and switching between projects
- Zsh as your shell
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
brew_tap 'caskroom/cask'
brew_install_or_upgrade 'brew-cask'
brew cask install dropbox
brew cask install google-chrome
brew cask install rdio
gem_install_or_update 'parity'
brew_install_or_upgrade 'tree'
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
, and
gem_install_or_update
can be used in your ~/.laptop.local
.
See the wiki for more customization examples.
Edit the mac
file.
Document in the README.md
file.
Follow shell style guidelines by using ShellCheck and Syntastic.
brew install shellcheck
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