Laptop

Laptop is a script to set up a Mac OS X laptop for Rails development.

Requirements

Install a C compiler.

Use OS X GCC Installer for Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6).

Use Command Line Tools for XCode for Lion (OS X 10.7) or Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8).

Set zsh as your login shell.

chsh -s /bin/zsh

Install

Run the script:

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

What it sets up

Bundler gem for managing Ruby libraries
Exuberant Ctags for indexing files for vim tab completion
Foreman gem for serving Rails apps locally
Heroku Config plugin for local ENV variables
Heroku Toolbelt for interacting with the Heroku API
Hub gem for interacting with the GitHub API
Homebrew for managing operating system libraries
ImageMagick for cropping and resizing images
Postgres for storing relational data
Postgres gem for talking to Postgres from Ruby
Qt for headless JavaScript testing via Capybara Webkit
Rails gem for writing web applications
Rbenv for managing versions of the Ruby programming language
Redis for storing key-value data
Ruby Build for installing Rubies
Ruby stable for writing general-purpose code
SSH public key for authenticating with Github and Heroku
The Silver Searcher for finding things in files
Tmux for saving project state and switching between projects
Watch for periodically executing a program and displaying the output

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

Credits

Laptop is maintained and funded by thoughtbot, inc. The names and logos for thoughtbot are trademarks of thoughtbot, inc.

Thank you, contributors!

License

Laptop is © 2011-2013 thoughtbot, inc. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.