Laptop
Laptop is a script to set up a Mac OS X or Linux laptop for Rails development.
Requirements
Mac OS X
Install a C compiler:
For Snow Leopard (10.6): use OS X GCC Installer.
For Lion (10.7) or Mountain Lion (10.8): use Command Line Tools for XCode.
For Mavericks (10.9): run sudo xcodebuild -license
and follow the instructions
to accept the XCode agreement. Then run xcode-select --install
in your
terminal and then click "Install".
Linux
We support:
- 14.04: Trusty Tahr,
- 13.10: Saucy Salamander,
- 12.04 LTS: Precise Pangolin,
- Debian stable (currently wheezy).
- Debian testing (currently jessie).
Install
Mac OS X
Read, then run the script:
bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thoughtbot/laptop/master/mac)
Linux
Read, then run the script:
bash <(wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thoughtbot/laptop/master/linux)
What it sets up
- Zsh as your shell
- Bundler gem for managing Ruby libraries
- Exuberant Ctags for indexing files for vim tab completion
- Foreman gem for serving Rails apps locally
- Heroku Config plugin for local
ENV
variables - Heroku Toolbelt for interacting with the Heroku API
- Hub gem for interacting with the GitHub API
- Homebrew for managing operating system libraries (OS X only)
- ImageMagick for cropping and resizing images
- Postgres for storing relational data
- Qt for headless JavaScript testing via Capybara Webkit
- Rails gem for writing web applications
- Rbenv for managing versions of the Ruby programming language
- Redis for storing key-value data
- Ruby Build for installing Rubies
- Ruby stable for writing general-purpose code
- The Silver Searcher for finding things in files
- Tmux for saving project state and switching between projects
- Watch for periodically executing a program and displaying the output
It should take less than 15 minutes to install (depends on your machine).
Make your own customizations
Put your customizations in ~/.laptop.local
. For example, your
~/.laptop.local
might look like this:
#!/bin/sh
brew tap phinze/homebrew-cask
brew install brew-cask
brew cask install dropbox
brew cask install google-chrome
brew cask install rdio
Laptopped linux vagrant boxes
We now publish vagrant boxes for every supported linux distro. These boxes have the laptop script applied already and are ready to go. Getting started is as easy as creating a Vagrantfile that looks like:
Vagrant.configure('2') do
config.vm.box = 'thoughtbot/ubuntu-14-04-server-with-laptop'
end
# And then in the same directory as your Vagrantfile . . .
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
Laptopped vagrantcloud boxes currently available:
thoughtbot/debian-wheezy-64-with-laptop
thoughtbot/debian-jessie-64-with-laptop
thoughtbot/ubuntu-14-04-server-with-laptop
thoughtbot/ubuntu-13-10-server-with-laptop
thoughtbot/ubuntu-12-04-server-with-laptop
See our vagrantcloud profile. You must have vagrant >= 1.5.0 to use vagrantcloud images directly.
Credits
Laptop is maintained and funded by thoughtbot, inc. The names and logos for thoughtbot are trademarks of thoughtbot, inc.
Thank you, contributors!
Contributing
Please see CONTRIBUTING.md.
License
Laptop is © 2011-2014 thoughtbot, inc. It is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.