Laptop

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

Requirements

1. 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).

2. Set zsh as your login shell.

   chsh -s /bin/zsh

Install

Run the script:

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

What it sets up

• Heroku Config plugin for local ENV variables
• Heroku Toolbelt for interacting with the Heroku API
• Homebrew for managing operating system libraries
• ImageMagick for cropping and resizing images
• Postgres for storing relational data
• Qt for headless JavaScript testing via Capybara Webkit
• RVM for managing Ruby versions

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.