Based on Zach Holman's excellent example here's my attempt to make my development machine configuration reusable.
Setting up a new development system for my use at Carbon Five still requires a fair number of steps which might be worth automating.
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mkdir ~/Projects
I structure my git repositories as~/Projects/<client>/<repo>
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turn on FileVault
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setup TimeMachine
- set ignored directories (DropBox, Projects, anything else already backed up outside TimeMachine)
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install Xcode
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install Xcode command line tools
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install brew
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install sublime
- install sublime package manager
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install DropBox
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install Chrome
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install Firefox
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install a password manager
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install chat clients
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install mou
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install a GUI git client
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generate and add a public key to github
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "[email protected]" pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
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Set zsh as my default shell:
chsh -s /bin/zsh
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dotfiles
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install
git clone https://github.com/jonah-carbonfive/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles cd ~/.dotfiles
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update git username
open git/gitconfig.symlink
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apply configuration
script/bootstrap osx/set-defaults.sh sublime2/setup
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install chruby and a current ruby
brew install chruby brew install ruby-install ruby-install ruby
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install postgres
brew install postgres initdb /usr/local/var/postgres -E utf8 mkdir -p ~/Library/LaunchAgents cp /usr/local/Cellar/postgresql/9.2.1/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist
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install redis
brew install redis ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/redis/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist
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install useful gems in global ruby
gem install bundler gem install lunchy gem install cocoapods pod setup
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update
~/.dotfiles/README.markdown
with anything missing from the list above -
get some work done
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Your dotfiles are how you personalize your system. These are mine. The very prejudiced mix: OS X, zsh, Ruby, Rails, git, homebrew, rbenv, vim. If you match up along most of those lines, you may dig my dotfiles.
I was a little tired of having long alias files and everything strewn about (which is extremely common on other dotfiles projects, too). That led to this project being much more topic-centric. I realized I could split a lot of things up into the main areas I used (Ruby, git, system libraries, and so on), so I structured the project accordingly.
If you're interested in the philosophy behind why projects like these are awesome, you might want to read my post on the subject.
Run this:
git clone https://github.com/holman/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
script/bootstrap
This will symlink the appropriate files in .dotfiles
to your home directory.
Everything is configured and tweaked within ~/.dotfiles
, though.
The main file you'll want to change right off the bat is zsh/zshrc.symlink
,
which sets up a few paths that'll be different on your particular machine.
You'll also want to change git/gitconfig.symlink
, which will set you up as
committing as Zach Holman. You probably don't want that.
Everything's built around topic areas. If you're adding a new area to your
forked dotfiles โ say, "Java" โ you can simply add a java
directory and put
files in there. Anything with an extension of .zsh
will get automatically
included into your shell. Anything with an extension of .symlink
will get
symlinked without extension into $HOME
when you run rake install
.
A lot of stuff. Seriously, a lot of stuff. Check them out in the file browser above and see what components may mesh up with you. Fork it, remove what you don't use, and build on what you do use.
There's a few special files in the hierarchy.
- bin/: Anything in
bin/
will get added to your$PATH
and be made available everywhere. - topic/*.zsh: Any files ending in
.zsh
get loaded into your environment. - topic/*.symlink: Any files ending in
*.symlink
get symlinked into your$HOME
. This is so you can keep all of those versioned in your dotfiles but still keep those autoloaded files in your home directory. These get symlinked in when you runrake install
. - topic/*.completion.sh: Any files ending in
completion.sh
get loaded last so that they get loaded after we set up zsh autocomplete functions.
There are a few things I use to make my life awesome. They're not a required dependency, but if you install them they'll make your life a bit more like a bubble bath.
- If you want some more colors for things like
ls
, install grc:brew install grc
. - If you install the excellent rbenv to manage multiple rubies, your current branch will show up in the prompt. Bonus. Replaced with RVM. - JW
I want this to work for everyone; that means when you clone it down it should
work for you even though you may not have rbenv
installed, for example. That
said, I do use this as my dotfiles, so there's a good chance I may break
something if I forget to make a check for a dependency.
If you're brand-new to the project and run into any blockers, please open an issue on this repository and I'd love to get it fixed for you!
I forked Ryan Bates' excellent dotfiles for a couple years before the weight of my changes and tweaks inspired me to finally roll my own. But Ryan's dotfiles were an easy way to get into bash customization, and then to jump ship to zsh a bit later. A decent amount of the code in these dotfiles stem or are inspired from Ryan's original project.