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A shell script to set up a macOS laptop for web and mobile development.

23 mentions on Hacker News by 22 people: 4 stories, 19 comments · first 2012-03-28 · latest 2021-12-13

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  1. …for Ruby dev (actually I use it as a reference rather than just running it, but still useful): https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop The oldest commits on this script are 11 years old and nothing in the last year, which seems quite stable.…
    comment by zingar · 2021-12-13 · in Show HN: We open sourced our new Mac developer setup script
  2. …getting a computer set up for web development. The dotfiles Here's a link if anyone's interested: https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop (setting up the machine) or https://github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles (custom dotfile setup)
    comment by codelemur · 2019-06-04 · in My Terminal Setup: iTerm2 and Zsh
  3. I like laptop from thoughtbot. It is a good starting point. https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop
    comment by pfooti · 2016-08-03 · in How to prepare your fresh Mac for software development
  4. Or if you like a fully scripted setup: https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop
    comment by mhw · 2016-08-03 · in How to prepare your fresh Mac for software development
  5. As a rails developer, I've used and recommended https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop :)
    comment by HugoDias · 2016-06-20 · in Ask HN: How do you install developer tools on a fresh system?
  6. I use Thoughtbot's Laptop. https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop
    comment by Kerrick · 2016-06-20 · in Ask HN: How do you install developer tools on a fresh system?
  7. …to install the same packages and libs I use for work. For my startup, we use something like this https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop (modified to our specs of course) to keep our machines all synced up. I'm thinking of using Docker or…
    comment by francisb07 · 2015-07-27 · in Ask HN: How do you keep your multiple workstations in sync?
  8. Thoughtbot also have laptop ( https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop ) I write a bash script to install standard development tools for developers in my company. I put most of the application on local server inside company network so I don't…
    comment by sumodirjo · 2015-05-07 · in Ask HN: What's THE way to setup a OS X dev machine 2015?
  9. …best OS in the world. Things just work. I used this script to set it up which worked flawlessly: https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop I suggest that you invest in MacBook Pro 15" Retina, as 13" is a bit small if you want to see the pages…
    comment by vassilevsky · 2015-03-20 · in Ask HN: Developer machine, Macbook vs. arbitrary Laptop with Linux, which?
  10. …look into for setting up your dev env: - Boxen ( https://boxen.github.com/_ - Laptop by Thoughbot ( https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop ) - Homebrew (this one's kind of obvious)
    comment by devinhalladay · 2014-07-20 · in Ask HN: MacBook Air for Web Development?
  11. https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop will install Homebrew, Tmux, Silver Searcher, Postgres, Redis, a few programming languages, and other items. https://github.com/thoughtbot/dotfiles sets up a bunch of slick aliases and plugins for Vim…
    comment by Croaky · 2014-06-11 · in Ask HN: I Just Got A Used MacBook Pro. What To Install?
  12. …has published several articles on this topic. And they released their script to handle this : https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop . Boxen is another way to prepare and setup your machines for work. There are other alternatives.
    comment by mcansky · 2014-04-03 · in Newbie: Set-up RoR dev environment on Mac os x Mavericks is painful
  13. These projects with the same goal also worth taking a look: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop http://boxen.github.com https://github.com/jpsim/laptop
    comment by jpsim · 2014-03-12 · in Cleanmachine – from fresh install to usable OS X web dev machine
  14. We forked this internally for a while https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop
    comment by dawson · 2013-07-22 · in Ask HN: Save developer time by automating setup?
  15. How about https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop
    comment by jroes · 2012-07-10 · in Installing Rails on a Mac Shouldn't Be As Hard As It Is
  16. thoughtbot laptop script https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop
    comment by markburns · 2012-06-17 · in Ask HN: Just ordered my first Mac- what apps should I know about?
  17. I help maintain the http://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop script that Giles mentioned. Happy to take feedback in Github Issues. Some other good ones: https://github.com/atmos/cinderella https://github.com/pivotal/pivotal_workstation
    comment by Croaky · 2012-03-29 · in Kickstarter: rails.app
  18. …at the very bottom of this page: we already have several projects of this nature. For instance: https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop http://bitnami.org/stack/rubystack https://github.com/joshfng/railsready So yeah. There are too many…
    comment by iamgilesbowkett · 2012-03-28 · in Kickstarter: rails.app
  19. https://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop
    comment by kreutz · 2012-03-28 · in Kickstarter: rails.app