bash, git, rails, Sublime Text 3, homebrew, more...
This project contains the dotfiles and custom shell scripts that I use on my Mac.
Why keep them at GitHub? Its a way to share advanced shell tips with other developers, and more practically, a way to back up my configuration. When I get a new Mac or (knock on wood) need to recover from lost data or a corrupt OS, I can simply clone this repository and immediately be back in business.
Thank you Ryan Bates, thoughtbot and Tom Ryder for the inspiration.
Before using these dotfiles there are a few things you'll need to install manually:
My blog post here has a walkthrough: https://mattbrictson.com/rails-osx-setup-guide
Choose a place to store the dotfiles, like ~/Code/dotfiles
.
git clone git://github.com/mattbrictson/dotfiles ~/Code/dotfiles
cd ~/Code/dotfiles
Run one of the three installation options:
rake install:dotfiles # Install the dotfiles and scripts
rake install:packages # Install homebrew packages and Mac defaults
rake install # Install all of the above (recommended)
Some features of the dotfiles only work with bash v5+. After installing bash via homebrew (which rake install:packages
does for you), enable it as your shell as follows:
/usr/local/bin/bash
to /etc/shells
/usr/local/bin/bash
by running chsh
The Sublime Text packages configured in these dotfiles are not installed automatically. You need to manually install Package Control:
install
Then install the packages you wish.
My Sublime Text settings are stored in the sublime
directory of this repo. To ensure that Sublime Text can find this directory, I symlink ~/Library/Application Support/Sublime Text/Packages/User
to it. The installation rake task takes care of setting this up for you. Here's what my dotfiles specify for Sublime:
These scripts will be installed to ~/.bin
and added to your $PATH
:
brew-install
installs and updates my standard suite of homebrew recipes. Run it on a new machine after installing homebrew to get all the recipes needed for Rails development, node, PostgreSQL, etc.bucket
is a simple command-line interface for Bitbucket, most notably providing a way to create pull requests. Run bucket --help
for details.defaults-install
uses defaults write
on OS X to change system default behavior to my liking: e.g. don't include drop-shadows on screenshots.git-pluck
adds the pluck
command to git, which is a trick for cherry-picking a commit from another repository into the current one: git pluck ../other-repo SHA
.git-trim
adds the trim
command to git, which deletes local and remote branches that have already been merged and thus are no longer needed.node-install
is a convenient wrapper around nodenv install
that does some easy-to-forget housekeeping before and after installation. Usage: node-install 12.14.0
.ruby-install
is a convenient wrapper around rbenv install
that does some easy-to-forget housekeeping before and after installation. Usage: ruby-install 2.1.2
.sup
uses SSH to update packages on one or more Ubuntu servers (assuming you have root access to them). In other words, sup SERVER1 SERVER2
will SSH as root into both servers and run the appropriate aptitude
commands to safely update all packages. It will also report whether any daemons need to be restarted for the updates to take effect.~/Work/dotfiles (main *%)$
.diff
with colordiff
.ls
output and adds l
, la
, and ll
shortcuts.top
settings.less
as the default pager and Sublime Text (subl
) as the default editor.psql
command..DS_Store
, Icon?
, and *sublime-project
.di
, co
, ci
, br
, l
, sw
.git hist
git ignored-files
git untracked-files
git unstage
In addition, during installation (see below), you will be prompted for your full name and email address, which are automatically added to the git config file.
r
command that serves as a shortcut for running bin/rake
or bin/rails
. It's pretty smart, so r s
will expand to bin/rails server
, and r db
will expand to bin/rake db:console
. No more mistakes of typing rails
vs rake
!gem install
runs much faster.xray
gem to use Sublime Text.irb
.rbenv install
.