Laptop

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

Install

Before you run this script, you need compilers like GCC, LLVM, and Clang.

Get them via OS X GCC Installer if you're on Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) or Command Line Tools for XCode if you're on Lion or Mountain Lion (OS X 10.7, 10.8).

Run the script:

curl -Os https://raw.github.com/molawson/laptop/master/mac ; bash mac

What it sets up

• SSH public key (for authenticating with services like Github and Heroku)
• Homebrew (for managing operating system libraries)
• Git (for code versioning)
• Hub (for interacting with github repositories)
• Ssh-copy-id (for copying ssh keys to servers)
• Vim with Ruby support (for code editing and compatibility with the Command-T plugin)
• Postgres (for storing relational data)
• MySQL (for storing more relational data)
• MongoDB (for storing document-based data)
• Redis (for storing key-value data)
• Memcached (for caching objects in memory)
• The Silver Searcher (for finding things in files)
• Tmux (for saving project state and switching between projects)
• ImageMagick (for cropping and resizing images)
• Qt (used by Capybara Webkit for headless JavaScript testing)
• Node.js (for event based applications)
• Rbenv, rbenv-vars, and ruby-build (for managing versions of the Ruby programming language)
• Ruby language (for writing general-purpose code)
• Pow (for serving your Rails app locally)
• Bundler gem (for managing Ruby libraries)
• Rails gem (for writing web applications)
• Taps gem (for pushing and pulling SQL databases between environments)
• Postgres gem (for making Ruby talk to SQL databases)
• Git Remote Branch gem (for faster git branch creation and deletion)
• Cloudapp gem (for sharing links and files from the command line)

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