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Laptop

Laptop is a script to set up an OS X computer for web development.

It can be run multiple times on the same machine safely. It installs, upgrades, or skips packages based on what is already installed on the machine.

Install

In a terminal window, run:

curl -Ls https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kickstarter/laptop/master/mac | sh

Debugging

Read through the output to see if you can debug the issue yourself. If not, copy the lines where the script failed into a new GitHub Issue for us. Or, cut & paste the entire output into the issue.

OS X El Capitan (10.11)

You may have problems installing Homebrew for the first time on OS X El Capitan due to permission changes to the /usr directory (within which the Homebrew installation is typically located). See the Homebrew El Capitan troubleshooting instructions for steps to resolve the permissions issues that interfere with Homebrew's installation.

What it sets up

Mac OS X tools:

Homebrew for managing operating system libraries.

Unix tools:

Git for version control
n for managing versions of node JS
Rbenv and Ruby Build for managing versions of Ruby
Pow for running local web services

It should take less than 15 minutes to install from scratch (depends on your machine), and about 2 seconds for subsequent runs.

Contributing

Edit the mac file. Document in the README.md file. Follow shell style guidelines by using ShellCheck and Syntastic.

brew install shellcheck

Credits

The Kickstarter laptop script is based on and inspired by thoughtbot's laptop script.