Setting up your mac book
Here a quick guide on setting up your mac book.
Mac installation
When installing your mac you get a bunch of questions, follow these:
- Enable Filevault hardware encryption
- Enable Find my Device
- Make a new Apple Id or use an existing ID
Install some base packages with brew
Setting up a laptop for development, we use brew
and brew cask
. First
go and install homebrew.
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
Then its time to install some packages, such as SQL, ruby version management etc, git and Heroku. We do this with homebrew
brew install \
git \
postgresql \
rbenv \
git-extras \
rbenv-vars \
ruby-build \
the_silver_searcher \
heroku \
wget \
node
Install the JS package managers
Install via NPM, we’ll use Yarn exclusively though after we install NPM. Here’s why we use YARN arn: A new package manager for JavaScript.
npm install -g npm@latest
npm install -g yarn
Install some apps with brew cask
Brew cask is the preferred way to install apps. Check out what it is here https://caskroom.github.io.
brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
brew cask install \
skype \
sourcetree \
freemind \
pgweb \
graphiql \
slack
Register and setup accounts
Setup a Github account
Setup a Github account. That is where we store our code.
Make a Heroku account
You need to deploy our code to production, so you need to make a Heroku account. Heroku is our preferred platform for deployment.
Setup a google account if you haven’t yet
Since we use Google docs for spreadsheets and documents. Signup for a google account.
Setup your Trello account
Go to Trello and setup your account, we use this for our task management.
Install GPG
You need to be able to encrypt and decrypt sensitive data, you need GOP for that. All our backups and customer data is encrypted.
brew install gnupg gnupg2
And create a key, keep your private key private.
https://help.github.com/articles/generating-a-new-gpg-key/
Install Sublime Text
You can use any text editor you want, but please start with this one first.
brew tap caskroom/versions
brew cask install sublime-text
After this you might want to install the following sublime extensions:
- Install sublime package control
- Slim support via package control via ‘Ruby Slim’
- Remove white space via package control ‘Trailing Spaces’
Edit the sublime text file using CMD+,
(command key+comma)
- Set spaces to 2 in Sublime, and use spaces as tabs.
{
"tab_size": 2,
"translate_tabs_to_spaces": true,
"font_size": 11,
"ignored_packages": ["Vintage"]
}
Setup your Git
Setup some defaults for GIT:
git config --global core.editor "vim"
git config --global push.default current
Set up your identity for github (replace these things with your name, and email as necessary):
git config --global user.name "John Doe"
git config --global user.email [email protected]
Setup your bash_profile
Edit the ~/.bash_profile
file and replace it with this:
export EDITOR=subl
eval "$(rbenv init -)"
source $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/git-prompt.sh
source $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/git-completion.bash
PS1="\W\$(__git_ps1 \" (%s)\") ∆ "
Install pow
Pow is our development web server, we can also use puma-dev but that’s still a bit flaky.
Cloning example repositories
git clone [email protected]:assemblymade/meta.git
git clone [email protected]:catarse/catarse.git
git clone [email protected]:assemblymade/coderwall.git
git clone [email protected]:sharetribe/sharetribe.git
git clone [email protected]:discourse/discourse.git
git clone [email protected]:instructure/canvas-lms.git
git clone [email protected]:asm-helpful/helpful-web.git
git clone [email protected]:asm-products/gamamia.git
git clone [email protected]:railsbridge/bridge_troll.git
git clone [email protected]:lockitron/selfstarter.git