Laptop is a set of scripts to get your laptop set up as a development machine.

First, install GCC for OS X. (requires OS X 10.6 or higher)

Then, run this one-liner:

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

First, install Ubuntu.

Then, run this one-liner:

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

If you're setting up Ubuntu for one of our workshops, we recommend you also install gEdit for your text editor. You can customize it with these instructions.

First, install Cygwin. You have to install curl package while installing Cygwin !

Then, run this one-liner:

bash < <(curl -ks https://raw.github.com/neoxyde/laptop/master/cygwin)

• SSH public keys (for authenticating with services like Github and Heroku)
• Homebrew or apt-get (for managing operating system libraries)
• Ack (for finding things in files)
• Tmux (for saving project state and switching between projects)
• Postgres (for storing relational data)
• Redis (for storing key-value data)
• ImageMagick (for cropping and resizing images)
• RVM (for managing versions of the Ruby programming language)
• Ruby 1.9.2 stable (for writing general-purpose code)
• Bundler gem (for managing Ruby libraries)
• Rails gem (for writing web applications)
• Heroku gem (for interacting with the Heroku API)
• Taps gem (for pushing and pulling SQL databases between environments)
• Postgres gem (for making Ruby talk to SQL databases)

It should take about 30 minutes for everything to install, depending on your machine.