Laptop

Laptop is a set of scripts to get your Max OS X laptop set up as a Rails development machine.

Install

First, install GCC for OS X. (requires OS X 10.6 or higher)

Then, run this one-liner:

bash < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/thoughtbot/laptop/master/mac)

What it sets up

• SSH public key (for authenticating with services like Github and Heroku)
• Homebrew (for managing operating system libraries)
• QT (used by Capybara Webkit for headless Javascript testing)
• Ack (for finding things in files)
• Tmux (for saving project state and switching between projects)
• MySQL (for storing relational data)
• Midnight Commander (for quick file operations)
• Redis (for storing key-value data)
• ImageMagick (for cropping and resizing images)
• RVM (for managing versions of the Ruby programming language)
• Ruby 1.9.3 stable (for writing general-purpose code)
• Bundler gem (for managing Ruby libraries)
• Rails gem (for writing web applications)
• Heroku gem (for interacting with the Heroku API)
• Taps gem (for pushing and pulling SQL databases between environments)
• Postgres gem (for making Ruby talk to SQL databases)
• Foreman gem (for serving your Rails app locally)
• Git Remote Branch gem (for faster git branch creation and deletion)
• Heroku accounts plugin (for using multiple Heroku accounts like a client's account)
• Heroku config plugin (for pulling config variables locally to be used as ENV variables)
• Heroku labs plugin (for using config variables during assets precompile and for using Ruby 1.9.3)

It should take about 30 minutes for everything to install, depending on your machine.