Setup OS X 10.7/8 w/ homebrew, oh-my-zsh, rvm, nodejs, nvm

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Setup new Mac with OSX Lion from scratch for Virtualization

These commands are good as of 08/12/2012.

Install Xcode 4 or Command line tools

The command line tools are approximately 171mb and everything you need w/ Free Apple ID. Or you can download the entire Xcode app.

iTerm2

Really the nicest choice for a terminal on OSX right now, especially with Lion style full screen support.

Homebrew

ruby <(curl -fsSk https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)

Note that Xcode is a pre-req for Homebrew

Set shell to ZSH and install oh-my-zsh

chsh -s /bin/zsh
curl -L https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh | sh

restart iTerm2

SCM

Git

brew install git

http://help.github.com/mac-set-up-git/

Copy over your SSH Keys from your existing machine if you have them and want to carry over your existing SSH configs.

RVM

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby

append to .zshrc

    [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"  # This loads RVM into a shell session

Start new shell session

Install ruby

    rvm install 1.9.3
    rvm install 1.8.7 #if needed

See if there is anything in the rvm notes you need to take action on.

Create a ~/.gemrc file and add the line

gem: --no-ri --no-rdoc

Node.js

Binary installer

http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.6/node-v0.8.6.pkg

Using homebrew:

brew install node

• Note: NPM is in the .pkg

• Warning: brew installs are known to be buggy

NAVE or NVM

• https://github.com/isaacs/nave/
• https://github.com/creationix/nvm/

VirtualBox

Vagrant

gem install vagrant
$ vagrant box add base http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid64.box
$ vagrant init
$ vagrant up

ievms

https://github.com/xdissent/ievms

Download and unpack ievms:

Install IE versions 6, 7, 8 and 9.

curl -s https://raw.github.com/xdissent/ievms/master/ievms.sh | bash

Install specific IE versions (IE7 and IE9 only for example):

curl -s https://raw.github.com/xdissent/ievms/master/ievms.sh | IEVMS_VERSIONS="7 9" bash

Launch Virtual Box.

Choose ievms image from Virtual Box. Install VirtualBox Guest Additions (pre-mounted as CD image in the VM). IE6 only - Install network adapter drivers by opening the drivers CD image in the VM.