There a quick way to uninstall all of this? Or is it pretty much manual?

In order to use capybara-webkit, my machine needs to have Qt on it.

https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/google-chrome.rb

Not sure if the issue is because gem update --system is failing

Updating rubygems-update
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions into the /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 directory.
failed
Installing critical Ruby gems for Rails development ...
ERROR: While executing gem ... (OptionParser::InvalidOption)
invalid option: --no-document
failed
Installing GitHub CLI client ...
ERROR: While executing gem ... (OptionParser::InvalidOption)
invalid option: --no-document
failed

P.S: I manually ran the command and the gems installed fine.

P.P.S: Vanilla iMac, Mountain Lion.

brew install tig 
cd project && tig

Tig is a git repository browser that additionally can act as a pager for output from various git commands.

When browsing repositories, it uses the underlying git commands to present the user with various views, such as summarized revision log and showing the commit with the log message, diffstat, and the diff.

Using it as a pager, it will display input from stdin and colorize it.

http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/

Just ran into a bit of confusion because the various dotfiles hadn't been reloaded.

https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/dropbox.rb

The command given to install laptop has an extra less than sign (<), rendering the command useless. Should be:

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

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/8700977975/2011-rubyists-guide-to-a-mac-os-x-development#comment-317627190

Hi,

I tried (several times on a fresh OS) your script to setup a rails environment, but every time it gets stuck at the point where (i believe) homebrew tries to download http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/automake/automake-1.13.1.tar.gz

Any idea how to solve this issue?

Thanks,
Pouya

Seems like it's better, more modern, supported by 37signals:

https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv
https://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build

Because of Apple’s conservative accounting practices, they charged $4.99 for folks running Snow Leopard who weren’t in the Mac or iOS developers program due to their interpretation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Anyone who buys Lion from the Mac App Store is entitled to a free copy of Xcode 4.

It would probably be a good idea to update the README so people aren’t confused.

Without ZSH installed, script throws an error (~/.zshrc file doesn't exist).

We have these existing lines:

echo "
# recommended by brew doctor
export PATH='/usr/local/bin:$PATH'" >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

And:

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

This script also begins with a shebang:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

Now that it's out, test laptop to ensure support for 13.04 (raring ringtail).

via @joshuaclayton

_ack() {
  if (( CURRENT == 2 )); then
    if [[ -f tmp/tags ]]; then
      compadd $(cat tmp/tags | awk '{print $1}')
    fi
  fi
}

compdef _ack ack

I like this process for keeping the community aware of changes to our open source projects:

https://twitter.com/thoughtbot/status/266966600966606848

The laptop script isn't a gem or formally packaged but I still think it would be worthwhile to version it, keep a NEWS file up to date, and announce new versions on the @thoughtbot Twitter account.

Looking for feedback on the idea. /cc @jferris @mike-burns

https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/x-quartz.rb

Recommended by Prem:

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/27985816073/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-riding-a-mountain-lion

pma@ubuntu:~$ bash < <(curl -s https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop/raw/master/ubuntu)
bash: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token <' bash: line 1:You are being redirected.'

I had got a few errors during installation. It was a fresh install, in a new machine, with macox 10.8.3. Everything is fine until rubygems-update.

I quote from shell:

Updating to latest Rubygems version ...
Updating RubyGems
Updating rubygems-update
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions into the /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 directory.

failed

Installing critical Ruby gems for Rails development ...
ERROR: While executing gem ... (OptionParser::InvalidOption)
invalid option: --no-document

failed

Installing GitHub CLI client ...
ERROR: While executing gem ... (OptionParser::InvalidOption)
invalid option: --no-document

failed

Im having a ton of errors on my install. Multiple .zshrc "command not found" errors. Multiple "failed to build gem native extension" errors, multiple RVM "error running ..." errors, "cant find header files for ruby at..." errors, RVM "there has been an error while running configure. Halting the installation"...

Wondering if you have experienced these and can steer me toward fixing them. Thanks for the script... I can post detailed error messages if needed...

I have forked this and I am planning on adding replacing PostgreSQL with Mongodb. Would there be a way to add this as an option to laptop? Perhaps a flag to use Mongodb instead of PostgreSQL?

Just curious, if not I will just leave the forked copy with Mongodb.

Thanks,

Bob

@croaky This is pretty minor, over all, but I believe statements like:

Install The Silver Searcher (better than ack or grep) for searching the contents of files ...

would sound better thusly:

Installing The Silver Searcher (better than ack or grep) to search the contents of files ...

but before I churn the hell out of everything I wanted to run it by you.

I mean, the script is installing something for you, and the thing it's installing is used to actively do something to something else.

The Homebrew install line should explicitly use /usr/bin/ruby instead of ruby, in case the user has a custom 1.9.x Ruby in the path ahead of the system one.

https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop/blob/master/mac#L11

One benefit I see is PostGIS is installed also. Not sure what other benefits it provides.

https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/postgres.rb

With version 2.22.0 or later of the Heroku gem, Heroku Labs is merged into the gem and the plugin is deprecated. :)

The script: https://toolbelt.heroku.com/install.sh

OSX ships with curl, not wget, so it can't run that script.

Possible solutions:

• brew install wget first (easiest)
• Make our own version of the script that uses curl

Works for projects using a ticket-number-in-branch convention.

#!/bin/sh

code-review()
{
  branch=`git branch -r | ack $1 | sed 's/.*\///'`
  git checkout $branch
}

We currently recommend in the script that people install GCC via GCC installer. However, some people might also have XCode installed. I found this note in the Ruby 1.9.3 release notes:

You have to configure ruby with '--with-gcc=gcc-4.2' if you're using
Xcode 4.1, or, if you're using Xcode 4.2, you have to configure ruby
with '--with-gcc=clang'

Should we be taking any kind of action here?

Ran this script on a new build Mac Pro, running Lion OSX 10.7.4 and it appeared to have problems installing the gems. I had to reinstall RVM using code from the RVM site, then reload it so I was running Ruby version 1.9.3, then install gems manually.

Just thought it was worth mentioning :)

Content refers to laptop but can instructions be used on Mac mini, iMac, Mac Pro also?

Keeps diff tools fast:

rm -r tmp/*

http://coderwall.com/p/wasqug

None of us actually run Ubuntu. It was put there originally for the HBS workshop.

Dropping support would allow us to do some more Mac-specific things like:

env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install pg

If you use the newest Xcode Command Line Tools, Apple's vanilla gcc-4.2 is no longer installed. This is a problem if you still intend to compile/use earlier versions of Ruby. (I think a number of earlier Rubies have problems building with clang or llvm-gcc as well as a number of other things you may end up wanting.)

There are currently two ways to get gcc-4.2 that I know of:

• via Homebrew (you need to use the dupes repo to get it)
• via Caius Durling's instructions

Using Homebrew is simpler, but it places gcc-4.2 in /usr/local/bin. This is not optimal since some naive build-scripts hardcode an expectation of /usr/bin/gcc-4.2. (This came up yesterday in IRC #machomebrew.) Anyhow, for what it's worth, I used the second method, and it's clean sailing after that. You can default to clang or llvm-gcc, but run select builds with CC=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 as needed.

I'm wondering why this script neither requires git nor does it install git.

I bought a new Mac Air on 10/2/2011
These instructions are very helpful.
An issue that I found is that the last step, running the script to install bundler, rails, heroku, tap and pg fails with permission issues.
So I am running the steps to install the components manually with sudo

Installing Bundler for managing Ruby libraries ...
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions into the /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 directory.
Installing Rails to write and run web applications ...
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions into the /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 directory.
Installing the Heroku gem to interact with the http://heroku.com API ...
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions into the /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 directory.
Installing the Taps gem to push and pull SQL databases between development, staging, and production environments ...
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions into the /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 directory.
Installing the pg gem to talk to Postgres databases ...
ERROR: While executing gem ... (Gem::FilePermissionError)
You don't have write permissions into the /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8 directory.

https://github.com/phinze/homebrew-cask/blob/master/Casks/iterm2.rb

Thinking about making the script output nothing to stdout but log its progress to a log file for debugging and an easy thing for users to paste into GitHub Issues.

I bought a new Mac Air on 10/2/2011
These instructions were really helpful.
An issue that I found is that before running the homebrew steps I had to install XCode first.
It was not installed by default.

It looks like you install the foreman gem, as well as the Heroku Toolbelt.

The Toobelt includes Foreman. I think installing the gem in addition to Toolbelt may cause future problems. For example, the Toolbelt is auto-updating, and the gem isn't - so you might run into weird problems with an out-of-sync foreman vs Heroku command-line tool.

After we've evaluated Ruby 2.0.0-p0 on some projects in production, upgrade it here.

While we're at it, use --no-document flag consistently.

successfully() {
  $* || (echo "failed" 1>&2 && exit 1)
}

means that we could do

successfully rvm use 1.9.2

WRONG: i just want suggest Jump. I can't live without it :)

update
RIGHT: The right plugin is this AutoJump and for me is very useful :)

After installing Postgres it would be nice if the script ran the following command:
initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8

The laptop script currently installs, but does not run or set a plist file for Postgres. For the Mac script, we should be able to grab the lines from brew info postgres. Not sure what to use for the if statement.

This would make the setup process for debian-derivative linux support stupid easy:

1. Add the apt repo, accept the signing key.
2. "aptitude install thoughtbot-rails-environment" (or whatever) which'd be a meta-package that depends on everything we install,
3. run "thoughtbot-rails-setup" post-install to do the user-level scripted setup - install rbenv, set up zsh, etc.

The apt repo could live on heroku, no prob.

One drawback - what the setup script actually does will be less transparent, and this may be a problem if we assume that copy-and-pasteablilty for the laptop script is important.

I used that manually:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/gist/323731)"
brew update

and got the error

error: unable to unlink old '.gitignore' (Permission denied)
 error: unable to unlink old 'README.md' (Permission denied)
fatal: Could not reset index file to revision 'FETCH_HEAD'.
rm: .git: Permission denied
Error: Failure while executing: rm -rf .git

I was just passing through this repository and it seemed like a good one. However, I was thinking it would be nice if a feature that checks if a particular software is already installed before installing it is added.

What do you guys think?

I used the GCC standalone installer, then ran the script as shown.

I wind up with a confused location of gems:

WHICH RUBY

/Users/alexmcpherson/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/rails

RAILS -V

/Users/alexmcpherson/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/dependency.rb:247:in to_specs': Could not find rails (>= 0) amongst [minitest-1.6.0, rake-0.8.7, rdoc-2.5.8] (Gem::LoadError) from /Users/alexmcpherson/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/dependency.rb:256:into_spec'
from /Users/alexmcpherson/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.2-p290/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:1210:in gem' from /Users/alexmcpherson/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.2-p290/bin/rails:18:in

'

Any thoughts why it thinks the gem would be in the /lib directory?

Otherwise smooth install, thanks for any hints.

I think there's a better way to access Ruby than /usr/bin/ruby. There's a way to reference a pointer to the default PATH'd Ruby instead of the actual executable.