Laptop

Laptop is a script to set up your Max OS X laptop as a web development machine.

Requirements

• OSX Mountain Lion (This is what I'm using so it's the only version I'm targeting, sorry)
• XCode 4.4
• X11
• MySQL

If you don't want to get XCode you can try getting the Command Line Tools for Mountain Lion but your milage may vary. You're better off just getting XCode.

Install

Run the script:

curl -s https://raw.github.com/anthonyshort/laptop/master/install | sh

What it sets up

• SSH public key (for authenticating with services like Github and Heroku)
• Homebrew (for managing operating system libraries)
• Git
• Git Flow
• PhantomJS (For headless JavaScript testing)
• Ack (for finding things in files)
• ImageMagick (for cropping and resizing images)
• RVM (for managing versions of the Ruby programming language)
• Ruby language (for writing general-purpose code)
• Bunch of commonly used gems (Sass, Compass, Stitch etc...)
• Node (The awesome Javascript runtime)
• NPM (Node package manager)
• Coffeescript
• Bunch of commonly-used node packages
• PHP, Composer and xdebug (https://github.com/josegonzalez/homebrew-php)

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

What it doesn't setup

• MySQL
• Apache
• Enabling PHP in Apache
• Setting up VirtualHosts
• Apps

The installer doesn't do these things because it's a) Already installed in MacOSX by default or b) It needs admin rights.

Setting up Apache

Find this line in /etc/apache2/httpd.conf starting with:

LoadModule php5_module /some/path

And replace the path with:

LoadModule php5_module /usr/local/Cellar/php53/5.3.14/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

Add this line to the bottom of the file:

Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

Setting up x-debug

The php.ini file is located in /usr/local/etc/php/5.3/php.ini. You'll need to add these settings to the bottom of the file and restart Apache.

[xdebug]
zend_extension=/usr/local/Cellar/php53-xdebug/2.2.0/xdebug.so
xdebug.file_link_format="txmt://open?url=file://%f&line=%1"
xdebug.default_enable=1
xdebug.scream=1
xdebug.cli_color=1
xdebug.max_nesting_level = 200

xdebug.overload_var_dump=1
xdebug.var_display_max_depth=6
xdebug.var_display_max_data=2048
var_display_max_children=256

xdebug.profiler_enable_trigger = 1

xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_handler=dbgp
xdebug.remote_port=9000
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.remote_autostart=1
xdebug.idekey=XDEBUG_ECLIPSE
xdebug.extended_info=1

Virtual Hosts

I use VirtualHostX for all of my VirtualHost needs.

Recommended Apps

• Chrome Canary
• Chrome
• Firefox
• Sublime Text 2
• Gitbox
• VirtualHostX
• Sequel Pro

Setting up Sublime Text 2

First, install the package manager:

import urllib2,os; pf='Package Control.sublime-package'; ipp=sublime.installed_packages_path(); os.makedirs(ipp) if not os.path.exists(ipp) else None; urllib2.install_opener(urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.ProxyHandler())); open(os.path.join(ipp,pf),'wb').write(urllib2.urlopen('http://sublime.wbond.net/'+pf.replace(' ','%20')).read()); print 'Please restart Sublime Text to finish installation'

• Tomorrow theme.
• Soda UI theme

Here are some recommended packages.