Setting up my new MacBook Pro

mbp-setup.markdown

• Set up user account
• Name computer
• Check trackpad settings
• Install Google Chrome
• Install Homebrew http://brew.sh/
• Brew should auto-install Xcode Developer Tools for you
• $ brew doctor
• $ brew install git
• Download node.js (I prefer the installer over brew) http://nodejs.org/download/
• npm is now installed, too
• Sublime Text http://www.sublimetext.com/
  • Open ST and install Package Control https://sublime.wbond.net/installation
  • Cmd+Shift+P, type "inp" to fuzzy search "Install Package"
  • Install packages: DocBlockr, others?
  • Link up the subl command: $ ln -s /Applications/Sublime\ Text.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl /usr/local/bin
• For now, not going to install rbenv because this Mac shipped with ruby -v 2.0.0p247
• Set up ssh key for GitHub, see: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys
  • after you set up your SSH key locally, be sure to run ssh-add
• Install bash-completion: $ brew install bash-completion
• Clone dotfiles repo (or your own fork) into ~/dotfiles https://github.com/jasonrhodes/dotfiles
• Make any changes to the dotfiles
• Symlink from each file in dotfiles/files to ~/ ex. $ ln -s ~/dotfiles/files/.bash_profile ~
• $ source ~/.bash_profile
• You might want to completely close Terminal and reopen after that
• Let's install global node modules at ~/.node, done by making a ~/.npmrc file as described here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/18277225
• npm install -g gulp hubot grunt-cli browserify bower mocha nodemon yeoman + any other global node modules you want
• Install HipChat https://jhu.hipchat.com/home
• Install VirtualBox https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
• Install Vagrant http://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html
• Make sure bash_profile sets the GEM_HOME env variable to $HOME/.ruby/default or similar, then make sure it also adds that directory + /bin to the PATH
  • This should be done for you if you grabbed the files from the dotfiles repo, but make sure
• $ gem env | grep INSTALLATION should output the location we set for GEM_HOME above
• $ gem install capistrano sass
• Install Composer: $ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php -- --install-dir=/usr/local/bin
  • Rename the .phar file so it can be used like a regular command: $ mv /usr/local/bin/composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer
• Install the jq tool (it takes json and makes it pretty in Terminal, and will parse the json tree using jquery): $ brew install jq