Laptop

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

Requirements

• Install a C compiler, such as GCC, LLVM, or Clang.

Download a compiler from the OS X GCC Installer if you're on Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) or use the Command Line Tools for XCode for Lion (OS X 10.7) or Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8).

• Set zsh as your login shell.

To change your login shell run this from a Terminal:

chsh -s /bin/zsh

Install

Run the script:

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

What it sets up

• Ack for finding things in files
• Bundler gem for managing Ruby libraries
• Foreman gem for serving Rails apps locally
• Heroku gem for interacting with the Heroku API
• 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
• Ruby 1.9.3 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).