Laptop

Laptop is a set of scripts to get your laptop set up as a development machine.

Mac OS X

First, install XCode. ($4.99, requires OS X 10.6.6 or higher)

Set up your SSH key if you haven't yet:

ssh-keygen -t rsa

Then, run this one-liner:

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

Then:

echo '[[ -s "/Users/`whoami`/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "/Users/`whoami`/.rvm/scripts/rvm"' >> ~/.bash_profile
source ~/.bash_profile

Install the latest version of Ruby and some useful gems:

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

Ubuntu

First, install Ubuntu.

Set up your SSH key if you haven't yet:

ssh-keygen -t rsa

Then, run this one-liner:

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

Follow the on-screen instructions to load RVM in your shell, and make sure you can run the rvm command.

Install the latest version of Ruby and some useful gems:

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

Use gEdit for your text editor. You can customize it with these instructions.

What it sets up

• SSH public keys (for authenticating with services like Github and Heroku)
• Homebrew or apt-get (for managing operating system libraries)
• Git (for managing versions of code)
• Ack (for finding things in files)
• 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 1.9.2 stable (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)
• SQLite and PG gems (for making Ruby talk to SQL databases)

It should take between 20-60 minutes for everything to install. (depends on your machine)