Laptop

Laptop is a script to set up an macOS laptop for software 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.

Requirements

Supported systems:

• macOS Sonoma (14.x) on Apple Silicon and Intel
• macOS Ventura (13.x) on Apple Silicon and Intel
• macOS Monterey (12.x) on Apple Silicon and Intel

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

Install

Download the script:

curl --remote-name https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gerardo/laptop/master/mac
less mac

Execute the downloaded script:

sh mac 2>&1 | tee ~/laptop.log

Optionally, review the log:

less ~/laptop.log

Optionally, install gerardo/dotfiles.

Debugging

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

What it sets up

macOS tools:

• Homebrew for managing operating system libraries.

Unix tools:

• Git for version control
• The Silver Searcher for finding things in files
• Zsh as your shell

GitHub tools:

• GitHub CLI for interacting with the GitHub API

Image tools:

• ImageMagick for cropping and resizing images

Programming languages, package managers, and configuration:

• Python and Ruby stable for writing general-purpose code
• Bundler for managing Ruby libraries
• [Rosetta 2] for running tools that are not supported in Apple silicon processors

And some more! Check the mac-components/ directory.

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

Customize in ~/.laptop.local

Your ~/.laptop.local is run at the end of the Laptop script. Put your customizations there. For example:

#!/bin/sh

brew bundle --file=- <<EOF
brew "Caskroom/cask/dockertoolbox"
brew "go"
brew "ngrok"
brew "watch"
EOF

default_docker_machine() {
  docker-machine ls | grep -Fq "default"
}

if ! default_docker_machine; then
  docker-machine create --driver virtualbox default
fi

default_docker_machine_running() {
  default_docker_machine | grep -Fq "Running"
}

if ! default_docker_machine_running; then
  docker-machine start default
fi

fancy_echo "Cleaning up old Homebrew formulae ..."
brew cleanup
brew cask cleanup

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 and gem_install_or_update can be used in your ~/.laptop.local.

Contributing

This is a fork of https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop, you might want to contribute to the source project.

License

Laptop is © 2011-2017 thoughtbot, inc. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.