Laptop

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

Requirements

Install a C compiler, such as GCC, LLVM, or Clang.

Download a compiler from the OS X GCC Installer if you're on Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) or use the Command Line Tools for XCode for Lion (OS X 10.7) or Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8).

Set zsh as your login shell.

To change your login shell run this from a Terminal:

chsh -s /bin/zsh

Install

Run the script:

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

What it sets up

Ack for finding things in files
Bundler gem for managing Ruby libraries
Foreman gem for serving Rails apps locally
Heroku gem for interacting with the Heroku API
Heroku Config plugin for local ENV variables
Homebrew for managing operating system libraries
ImageMagick for cropping and resizing images
Postgres for storing relational data
Postgres gem for talking to Postgres from Ruby
Qt for headless JavaScript testing via Capybara Webkit
Rails gem for writing web applications
Ruby 1.9.3 stable for writing general-purpose code
RVM for managing versions of the Ruby programming language
SSH public key for authenticating with Github and Heroku
Tmux for saving project state and switching between projects

It should take less than 30 minutes to install (depends on your machine).