Setting up a new machine

Instructions.markdown

Setting up a new Mac for web development with Rails

This is my own howto to setup new machines, but you might find it helpful as well.

## General settings

• In Finder -> Preferences set it to show your home folder, hard drives, external drives, filename extensions, etc.
• Make Finder show Library: run chflags nohidden ~/Library/ within a terminal
• Disable holding key pressed to display accents and enable repeat keys: defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
• In Preferences->Dock Select "Scale Effect" in the "Minimize Using" field and deselect the "Animate Opening Applications" option.
• Remove unused dashbaord widgets: Go to dashboard and press and hold the Option key. Remove widgets.
• Disable Lion's window animations: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO
• Show all files in Finder: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles 1

## The basic stuff

• Install iterm2: http://www.iterm2.com
• Download and install gcc (w/o xcode): https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer or go ahead and install xcode from the app store
• Create the directory /usr/local/ as your user, otherwise it will ask for sudo during homebrew installation and the directory will be owned by root, causing errors
• Install homebrew: https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/Installation (gcc is fine, no need to install XCode)
• $ brew install git
• $ brew update
• $ brew install ack
• $ brew install wget
• Install rvm: http://beginrescueend.com/
• To complete the installation follow the instructions of the install script, in my case I created the file ~/.profile and pasted the following: [[ -s "/Users/alberto/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "/Users/alberto/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # This loads RVM into a shell session.
• Reload: $ source ~/.profile
• Install rubies: $ rvm install 1.9.2 $ rvm install 1.8.7 $ rvm --default use 1.9.2
• Install bash-completion: $ brew install bash-completion (and follow the instructions)
• Install sqlite: $ brew install sqlite

Now the stuff we use for our projects

• brew install mongodb, follow the instructions for automatic startup/shutdown
• brew install postgresql, follow the instructions to create the DB, automatic startup/shutdown or install from PKG
• brew install imagemagick

Browsers

• Google Chrome
• Opera
• Firefox
• VirtualBox + images for IE8 & IE9

Printers

Follow the instructions described in the internal wiki

Other software

• Libreoffice
• Balsamiq Mockups
• Tunnelblick: http://code.google.com/p/tunnelblick/
• Dropbox
• Spotify
• Adium
• Skype
• Teamviewer
• Twitter Client
• Github for Mac

Copy the files from your backup

• Source code directories
• ~/.ssh directory (keys, config)
• Dotfiles: ~/.vimrc, ~/.profile (or maybe you already use a repo for your dotfiles...)
• Install projectplus for Textmate: http://ciaranwal.sh/projectplus
• Textmate bundles from ~/Library/Application Support/Textmate
• Fonts in ~/Library/Fonts
• Copy the config files for tunnelblick: ~/Library/Application Support/Tunnelblick/Configurations
• Music/iTunes Library

recover_filed_from_filevault_eg_timemachine_backup.sh

$ hdiutil mount -owners on -mountrandom /tmp -stdinpass /Volumes/TM_ALBERTO/Backups.backupdb/alberto-macbook/Latest/Macintosh\ HD/Users/alberto/alberto.sparsebundle