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

1. Install a C compiler.

For Snow Leopard (10.6): use OS X GCC Installer

For Lion (10.7) or Mountain Lion (10.8): use Command Line Tools for XCode

For Mavericks (10.9): run xcode-select --install in your terminal and then click "Install".

2. Set zsh as your login shell:

   chsh -s /bin/zsh

We support:

• 13.10: Saucy Salamander,
• 13.04: Raring Ringtail,
• 12.10: Quantal Quetzal, and
• 12.04 LTS: Precise Pangolin,
• Debian stable (currently wheezy).
• Debian testing (currently jessie).

1. Install zsh and set it as your login shell:

   bash <(wget -qO- https://raw.github.com/thoughtbot/laptop/master/linux-prerequisites)

Read, then run the script:

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

Read, then run the script:

zsh <(wget -qO- https://raw.github.com/thoughtbot/laptop/master/linux)

• Bundler gem for managing Ruby libraries
• Exuberant Ctags for indexing files for vim tab completion
• Foreman gem for serving Rails apps locally
• Heroku Config plugin for local ENV variables
• Heroku Toolbelt for interacting with the Heroku API
• Hub gem for interacting with the GitHub API
• Homebrew for managing operating system libraries (OS X only)
• ImageMagick for cropping and resizing images
• Postgres for storing relational data
• Qt for headless JavaScript testing via Capybara Webkit
• Rails gem for writing web applications
• Rbenv for managing versions of the Ruby programming language
• Redis for storing key-value data
• Ruby Build for installing Rubies
• Ruby stable for writing general-purpose code
• The Silver Searcher for finding things in files
• Tmux for saving project state and switching between projects
• Watch for periodically executing a program and displaying the output

It should take less than 15 minutes to install (depends on your machine).