How I set up my workstation

macbook.md

My current workstation toolchain environment was set up with the following, roughly in order.

1. Latest Xcode from Apple to get development tools.

2. Homebrew.

3. A few nice things with Homebrew:

   brew install git ack wget tmux sloccount ec2-ami-tools ec2-api-tools rds-command-line-tools

4. Ruby Version Manager (RVM)

5. Use RVM to install Ruby 1.9.2 and set it as my current Ruby.

   rvm install 1.9.2 rvm 1.9.2

6. Install Chef as a RubyGem.

   gem install chef

7. Set up Chef to run with my Opscode Platform organization.

8. Run Chef, which will install a pile of gems (see gems.json) and the following repositories and config files.

   • http://github.com/jtimberman/dotvim
   • http://github.com/jtimberman/oh-my-zsh
   • .zshrc (default oh-my-zsh with a few custom changes like PATH).
   • .vimrc (source ~/.vim/vimrc)
   • .irbrc
   • .gemrc
   • tmux.conf

9. Tmux with Homebrew:

   brew install tmux

10. Additional applications:

    • MacVim
    • VirtualBox
    • VMware Fusion

11. Tweaks

• caps lock to control
• customize hostname
• change my shell to zsh
• full keyboard access, all controls

workstation.json

{
  "id": "workstation",
  "gems": {
    "jeweler": "",
    "json": "1.4.6",
    "yajl-ruby": "",
    "bluecloth": "",
    "capistrano": "",
    "thor": "",
    "awesome_print": "",
    "github": "",
    "gist": "",
    "fog": "",
    "highline": "",
    "net-sftp": "",
    "net-ssh-multi": "",
    "ronn": "",
    "gem-man": "",
    "open_gem": "",
    "wirble": "",
    "ghost": "",
    "sdoc": "",
    "thor": "",
    "interactive_editor": "",
    "rspec": "",
    "cucumber": "",
    "git-up": "",
    "grit": "",
    "showoff": "",
    "cheat": "",
    "org-ruby": "",
    "prawn": "",
    "nanoc": "",
    "kramdown": "",
    "adsf": "",
    "vagrant": ""
  }
}

zshrc

# Path to your oh-my-zsh configuration.
export ZSH=$HOME/.oh-my-zsh

# Set to the name theme to load.
# Look in ~/.oh-my-zsh/themes/
export ZSH_THEME="jtimberman"

# Set to this to use case-sensitive completion
# export CASE_SENSITIVE="true"

# Comment this out to disable weekly auto-update checks
# export DISABLE_AUTO_UPDATE="true"

# Uncomment following line if you want to disable colors in ls
# export DISABLE_LS_COLORS="true"

# Which plugins would you like to load? (plugins can be found in ~/.oh-my-zsh/plugins/*)
# Example format: plugins=(rails git textmate ruby lighthouse)
plugins=(git ruby)

source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh

# Customize to your needs...
if [[ 'Darwin' == `uname` ]]
then
  macpaths="/usr/local/homebrew/bin:/usr/local/homebrew/sbin:"
  macman="/usr/local/homebrew/share/man:"
fi
export PATH="$macpaths/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin:$HOME/bin"
export MANPATH="$macman/usr/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/X11R6/man"

if whence -cp vim > /dev/null; then
  export EDITOR=`whence -cp vim`
elif whence -cp vi > /dev/null; then
  export EDITOR=`whence -cp vi`
fi

alias knife='nocorrect knife'

[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" 
[[ -s ~/.zshrc.local ]] && source ~/.zshrc.local

set -o vi