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

Requirements
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### Mac OS X

1) Install a C compiler.

Use [OS X GCC Installer](https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer/) for
Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6).

Use [Command Line Tools for XCode](https://developer.apple.com/downloads/index.action)
for Lion (OS X 10.7) or Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8).

2) Set zsh as your login shell:

    chsh -s /bin/zsh

### Linux

We support:

* The latest Ubuntu LTS release (currently
  [precise](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes)),
* The latest Ubuntu non-LTS release (currently
  [quantal](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/ReleaseNotes)), and
* Debian testing (currently [wheezy](http://www.debian.org/releases/testing/)).

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

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

Install
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### Mac OS X

Read, then run the script:

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

### Linux

Read, then run the script:

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

What it sets up
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* 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
* Postgres gem for talking to Postgres from Ruby
* 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).

Credits
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![thoughtbot](http://thoughtbot.com/assets/tm/logo.png)

Laptop is maintained and funded by [thoughtbot, inc](http://thoughtbot.com/community).
The names and logos for thoughtbot are trademarks of thoughtbot, inc.

Thank you, [contributors](/thoughtbot/laptop/graphs/contributors)!

License
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Laptop is © 2011-2013 thoughtbot, inc. It is free software, and may be
redistributed under the terms specified in the LICENSE file.