Developer Tools

borrowed from

• thoughtbot/laptop
• newism/osx-dev-tools

Developer Tools 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

Install

Run the script:

git clone https://github.com/mauricecalhoun/tools.git
./tools/install

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 5.6 w/ intl, apc, xdebug, twig and composer (https://github.com/josegonzalez/homebrew-php)
• POW Ruby and PHP
• POW Rails
• and more....

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: # PHP 5.6 LoadModule php5_module /usr/local/opt/php54/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so

Add this line to the bottom of the file:

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

Recommended Apps

• Chrome
• Firefox
• Sequel Pro
• Brackets