A repeatable, documented, decomposable, shareable and iterative OSX (ruby) development environment

Pivotal Workstation automates the process of installing common applications such as Google Chrome, Firefox, homebrew, and RubyMine. Pivotal Workstation also sets OSX preferences such as dock hiding or key repeat rate. Finally, Pivotal Workstation configures command line tools such as git and ssh.

mkdir ~/cookbooks
cd ~/cookbooks
git clone https://github.com/pivotal/pivotal_workstation
git clone https://github.com/opscode-cookbooks/dmg
cat > ~/soloistrc <<EOF
cookbook_paths:
- cookbooks
recipes:
- pivotal_workstation::meta_osx_base
- pivotal_workstation::meta_osx_development
- pivotal_workstation::meta_ruby_development
EOF
gem install soloist
soloist

You may want to change the default applications or preferences. For example, you might want to install only Chrome and Sublime Text. In that case, your soloistrc would look like this:

cookbook_paths:
- cookbooks
recipes:
- pivotal_workstation::chrome
- pivotal_workstation::sublime_text

There are two online tools you can use to generate soloistrc files:

• SoloWizard

  This is the easiest way to get started, and it only involves cutting-and-pasting one line. Many thanks to Tom Hallett.

• soloistrc builder

  Soloistrc Builder can be pointed at any cookbook and will help you build a soloistrc. Many thanks to Winston Teo.

Traditionally, Pivotal Labs relied on imaging workstations from a gold master image which was updated as time allowed. Pivotal Workstation creates a development environment with almost no effort. See the recipes folder for a complete list of possible recipes for your ~/soloistrc file.

Many recipes require homebrew. Other recipes will overwrite your .bash_profile. chef-solo runs as root and may make system-wide changes.

• Fork the project
• Make your feature addition or bug fix
• Send me a pull request; bonus points for topic branches
• If you submit several recipes, break them into several pull requests

• Matthew Kocher & Steve Conover
• Brian Cunnie
• Doc Ritezel

• Roderik van der Veer
• Patrick Connolly
• Winston Teo
• Tom Hallett

Copyright © Pivotal Labs. See LICENSE.txt for details.