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Dan Croak committed Jul 28, 2012
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Laptop
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Laptop is a script to set up your Max OS X laptop as a Rails development machine.

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Spaceghost Aug 2, 2012

Why does it say max?

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Good catch, thanks! Fixed in 6fb6172

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

Requirements
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What it sets up
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* 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)
* Postgres (for storing relational data)
* Redis (for storing key-value data)
* ImageMagick (for cropping and resizing images)
* RVM (for managing versions of the Ruby programming language)
* Ruby language (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)

It should take about 30 minutes for everything to install, depending on your machine.
* Ack for finding things in files
* Bundler gem for managing Ruby libraries
* Foreman gem for serving Rails apps locally
* Git Remote Branch gem for faster git branch creation and deletion
* Heroku gem for interacting with the Heroku API
* Heroku Accounts plugin for using a client's account
* Heroku Config plugin for local `ENV` variables
* 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
* Redis for storing key-value data
* Ruby 1.9.2 stable for writing general-purpose code
* RVM for managing versions of the Ruby programming language
* SSH public key for authenticating with Github and Heroku
* Tmux for saving project state and switching between projects

It should take less than 30 minutes to install (depends on your machine).

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