Laptop

Laptop is a script to set up an OS X laptop for web 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

We support:

• OS X Mavericks (10.9)
• OS X Yosemite (10.10)
• OS X El Capitan (10.11)

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

Install

Download, review, then execute the script:

curl --remote-name https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thoughtbot/laptop/master/mac
less mac
sh mac 2>&1 | tee ~/laptop.log

Optionally, install thoughtbot/dotfiles.

Debugging

Your last Laptop run will be saved to ~/laptop.log. Read through it to see if you can debug the issue yourself. If not, copy the lines where the script failed into a new GitHub Issue for us. Or, attach the whole log file as an attachment.

OS X El Capitan (10.11)

You may have problems installing Homebrew for the first time on OS X El Capitan due to permission changes to the /usr directory (within which the Homebrew installation is typically located). See the Homebrew El Capitan troubleshooting instructions for steps to resolve the permissions issues that interfere with Homebrew's installation.

What it sets up

• Bundler for managing Ruby libraries
• Exuberant Ctags for indexing files for vim tab completion
• Foreman for managing web processes
• Google Chrome
• hub for interacting with the GitHub API
• Heroku Toolbelt for interacting with the Heroku API
• Homebrew for managing operating system libraries
• ImageMagick for cropping and resizing images
• iTerm2 for a better terminal
• Karabiner for customizing the keyboard
• Mozilla Firefox
• MySQL for storing relational data
• MySQLWorkbench MySQL GUI application
• Neovim Neovim is vim out of the box
• Node.js and NPM, for running apps and installing JavaScript packages
• Postgres for storing relational data
• Powerline (and fonts) for an awesome status bar
• Qt for headless JavaScript testing via Capybara Webkit
• Rbenv for managing versions of Ruby
• RCM for managing company and personal dotfiles
• Redis for storing key-value data
• Ruby Build for installing Rubies
• Ruby stable for writing general-purpose code
• ShiftIt Managing window size and position in OSX
• Slack Messaging application
• The Silver Searcher for finding things in files
• Tmux for saving project state and switching between projects
• Zsh as your shell

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_tap 'caskroom/cask'
brew_install_or_upgrade 'brew-cask'

brew cask install dropbox
brew cask install google-chrome
brew cask install rdio

gem_install_or_update 'parity'

brew_install_or_upgrade 'tree'
brew_install_or_upgrade 'watch'

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

See the wiki for more customization examples.

Contributing

Edit the mac file. Document in the README.md file. Follow shell style guidelines by using ShellCheck and Syntastic.

brew install shellcheck

Thank you, contributors!

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License

Laptop is © 2011-2015 thoughtbot, inc. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.

About thoughtbot

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

We are passionate about open source software. See our other projects. We are available for hire.