Setting up a new computer

Necessary apps

• XCode
• Chrome
• iTerm
• Seil

System Preferences

Trackpad

Go to System Preferences > Trackpad > Point & Click and find "Tracking speed". Move it up one notch.

Dock

Go to System Preferences > Dock and find "Size". Move the selector all the way to the right.

XCode

Downloading it from the App Store should kick of the installer. Follow the directions there to get XCode up and running.

Chrome

Sign in to relevant Google accounts

Seil

For more info, see this Stack Overflow answer.

1. Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard > Modifier Keys... and for each keyboard change "Caps Lock Key:" to "No Action"
2. Download Seil, open the installer, and install it.
3. Open Seil, navigate to Setting > Change the caps lock key, check "Change the caps lock key", and enter "53" for the keycode

Move Seil to Applications if it's not already there. The first step doesn't appear to be necessary, but is probably a good idea in case an OSX update makes some sort of subtle change that disregards Seil when an action is set for the caps lock key.

iTerm

XCode tools

To start installation of the Command Line Tools:

xcode-select --install

Follow the instructions that pop up to complete installation

Install Homebrew

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Git Setup

Installation

brew install git

Set commit user name and email

git config --global user.name "Your Name"
git config --global user.email [email protected]

Cache Github password

Caching Github password in git.

git config --global credential.helper osxkeychain

OAuth Tokens

When asked to input username and password to access a git repo, follow the directions on this help page.

Configure iTerm

Clone useful repos

# Make a directory for git repos
mkdir ~/git
# iTerm color schemes
git clone https://github.com/mbadolato/iTerm2-Color-Schemes ~/git/iTerm2-Color-Schemes
# iTerm fonts
git clone https://github.com/powerline/fonts ~/git/fonts

Set up color schemes

Color scheme of choice is currently PaulMillr

1. iTerm > Preferences > Profile > Default > Colors > Color Presets > Import...
2. Navigate to ~/git/iTerm2-Color-Schemes/schemes
3. Choose "PaulMillr.itermcolors"

Or choose a bunch of the files and then select "PaulMillr" in the Color Presets dropdown

Set up fonts

Font of choice is currently Source Code Pro

# install fonts
cd ~/git/fonts/
./install.sh

iTerm > Preferences > Profile > Default > Text > Change Font

• Font: Source Code Pro for Powerline
• Size: 11px

Terminal settings

iTerm > Preferences > Profile > Default > Terminal

Check "Unlimited Scrollback"

Uncheck the following:

• Save lines to scrollback when an app status bar is present
• Save lines to scrollback in alternate screen mode
• Disable save/restore alternate screen

Key Settings

iTerm > Preferences > Profile > Default > Terminal

Change "Left option key acts as:" from "Normal" to "+Esc"

Change Alt+Left to

• Action: Send Escape Sequence
• Esc+: b

Change Alt+Right to

• Action: Send Escape Sequence
• Esc+: f

Zsh Setup

Install zsh

# install zsh
sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)"
# set zsh to default shell language
chsh -s /bin/zsh
# exit shell
exit
# then, reopen iTerm

Set up dotfiles

mkdir git
git clone https://github.com/JoeKennedy/dotfiles.git ~/git/dotfiles
rm ~/.vimrc
rm ~/.zshrc
ln -s ~/git/dotfiles/vimrc ~/.vimrc
ln -s ~/git/dotfiles/zshrc ~/.zshrc

Install useful tools

# ag
brew install ag
# wget
brew install wget
# ImageMagick (for rails apps)
brew install ImageMagick
# redis
brew install redis
brew services start redis

Ruby Setup

Ruby setup should be done before Vim setup so that vim is compiled with rvm's version of ruby. Otherwise down the line there may be some strange issues with vim down the line.

As an example, when opening a file in a ruby repo with vim, this message will pop up.

Ignoring <GEM>-<VERSION> because its extensions are not built. Try: gem pristine <GEM> --version <VERSION>

Install rvm

# download and install
curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
# use rvm for system ruby
rvm system

Rails projects

Clone using either heroku git:clone or git clone, depending on the repo. Then cd to that directory.

rvm install <RUBY-VERSION>
gem install bundler
bundle install

# Run one of the two following, either
bundle exec rake db:setup
# Or
bundle exec rake db:create
bundle exec rake db:migrate
bundle exec rake db:seed

Vim Setup

This was mentioned above, but make sure that the ruby installation and setup, specifically rvm, is complete before installing vim.

Install vim

brew install vim

Create necessary directories

mkdir ~/.vim/colors
mkdir ~/.vim/tmp
mkdir ~/.vim/backup

Clone repos

# vundle
git clone https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim.git ~/.vim/bundle/Vundle.vim
# vim color schemes
git clone https://github.com/chrishunt/color-schemes.git ~/git/color-schemes

Set up font

cp ~/git/color-schemes/thayer/vimbrant.vim ~/.vim/colors/vimbrant.vim

Set up vundle

First, open the vimrc file

vim ~/.vimrc

Then, in vim, run the following command install plugins

:PluginInstall
# Then, quit vim
:q

Now, all the vim plugins should be set up.

Postgres Setup

# install it
brew install postgresql
# start it up
brew services start postgresql
# create user database
createdb

Heroku Setup

brew install heroku
heroku login
# Enter email, password, and two-factor code

To clone repos from Heroku, use:

heroku git:clone -a myapp mydirectory

Replace myapp with the name of the app to clone and mydirectory with the name of directory to clone into

Common Lisp Setup

For further reference, see http://gnperdue.github.io/yak-shaving/osx/lisp/2014/11/10/lisp-setup.html

Install SBCL

# sbcl
brew install sbcl
# rlwrap (modernizes the sbcl shell a bit)
brew install rlwrap

Install Quicklisp

mkdir ~/tmp && cd ~/tmp
curl -O http://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp
curl -O http://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp.asc
sbcl --load quicklisp.lisp

This will take you into the SBCL shell. In the SBCL shell, run:

(quicklisp-quickstart:install)
(ql:add-to-init-file)
; Press Enter to continue
(sb-ext:exit)

This will exit the SBCL shell. Installation is complete. Before moving on to the next step, remove the tmp directory

cd ~ && rm -rf ~/tmp

Install Caveman2

Enter the SBCL shell with sbcl and in the shell, install caveman2

(ql:quickload :caveman2)
(sb-ext:exit)

For more info on setting up Caveman2, see this helpful guide.

Create projects

Put new projects in ~/quicklisp/local-projects or ~/git.

Haskell Setup

With Stack, installing Haskell is super easy.

Install Stack

Simply use homebrew:

brew install stack

As far as I remember, this should install GHC and cabal as well.

Install Yesod

Yesod is a sweet MVC framework for Haskell. Yesod bin allows you to run yesod commands in your terminal.

cabal install yesod-bin

Install apps

Simply run the stack build command in a haskell project to get it up and running. It might take a while the first time, since it's setting up a sandbox.