thoughtbot dotfiles
Requirements
Set zsh as your login shell.
chsh -s /bin/zsh
Install
Clone onto your laptop:
git clone git://github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles.git
(Or, fork and keep your fork updated).
Install:
cd dotfiles
./install.sh
This will create symlinks for config files in your home directory.
You can safely run ./install.sh
multiple times to update.
Make your own customizations
Put your customizations in dotfiles appended with .local
:
~/.aliases.local
~/.gitconfig.local
~/.gvimrc.local
~/.tmux.conf.local
~/.vimrc.local
~/.vimrc.bundles.local
~/.zshrc.local
For example, your ~/.aliases.local
might look like this:
# Productivity
alias todo='$EDITOR ~/.todo'
Your ~/.gitconfig.local
might look like this:
[alias]
l = log --pretty=colored
[pretty]
colored = format:%Cred%h%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)%an%Creset
[user]
name = Dan Croak
email = dan@thoughtbot.com
Your ~/.zshrc.local
might look like this:
# load rbenv
eval "$(rbenv init -)"
# recommended by brew doctor
export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"
Your ~/.vimrc.bundles.local
might look like this:
Bundle 'Lokaltog/vim-powerline'
Bundle 'stephenmckinney/vim-solarized-powerline'
What's in it?
vim configuration:
- Ctrl-P for fuzzy file/buffer/tag finding.
- Rails.vim for enhanced navigation of
Rails file structure via
gf
and:A
(alternate),:Rextract
partials,:Rinvert
migrations, etc. - Run RSpec specs from vim.
- Set
<leader>
to a single space. - Switch between the last two files with space-space.
- Syntax highlighting for CoffeeScript, Textile, Cucumber, Haml, Markdown, and HTML.
- Use Ag instead of Grep when available.
- Use Exuberant Ctags for tab completion.
- Use GitHub color scheme.
- Use Vundle to manage plugins.
tmux configuration:
- Improve color resolution.
- Remove administrative debris (session name, hostname, time) in status bar.
- Set prefix to
Ctrl+a
(like GNU screen). - Soften status bar color from harsh green to light gray.
git configuration:
- Adds a
create-branch
alias to create feature branches. - Adds a
delete-branch
alias to delete feature branches. - Adds a
merge-branch
alias to merge feature branches into master. - Adds an
up
alias to fetch and rebaseorigin/master
into the feature branch. Usegit up -i
for interactive rebases.
Shell aliases and scripts:
b
forbundle
.g
with no arguments isgit status
and with arguments acts likegit
.git-churn
to show churn for the files changed in the branch.m
forrake db:migrate && rake db:rollback && rake db:migrate && rake db:test:prepare
.mcd
to make a directory and change into it.rake
iszeus rake
if using Zeus on the project in current directory.replace foo bar **/*.rb
to find and replace within a given list of files.rk
forrake
.rspec
iszeus rspec
if using Zeus on the project in current directory.tat
to attach to tmux session named the same as the current directory.v
for$VISUAL
.
Credits
Thank you, contributors! Also, thank you to Corey Haines, Gary Bernhardt, and others for sharing your dotfiles and other shell scripts from which we derived inspiration for items in this project.
Dotfiles is maintained by thoughtbot, inc The names and logos for thoughtbot are trademarks of thoughtbot, inc.
Dotfiles is © 2009-2013 thoughtbot, inc. It is free software and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.