Workstation Repave

Building a happy MacOS workstation with all the things.

System Ruby, Homebrew, and Homebrew Bundle do the heavy lifting. But there is some lightweight Ruby-based shell scripting as well.

Assumptions

• MacOS Catalina or later
• Internet is connected

First

1. Have a clean install of MacOS
2. Run Terminal
3. Run the following to bootstrap

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/infews/workstation_repave/main/bin/bootstrap)"

...and watch the prompts

4. Populate the file ~/.system_name with the name you want for this computer
5. Run bin/repave to finish (See customization below)

What's Happening?

bin/bootstrap

The bin/bootstrap script will do the following:

• Install XCode's command line tools, which includes git
• Make the ~/workspace directory (for all your coding projects)
• Clone this repo into ~/workspace
• Prompt you to run the follow-on script

bin/repave

The bin/repave script runs the remaining tasks, relying heavily on Homebrew to finish the automatable tasks.

But Really, What's Happening?

• The repo is cloned locally
• Anything that can be installed via Homebrew, will be installed via Homebrew Bundle with the Brewfile in assets/Brewfile
• Any dotfiles for various apps live in dotfiles are managed and symlinked with rcm
• Git is configured by generating a .gitconfig that includes assets/gitinclude
  • This is because Git won't load a symlinked dotfile
• Run other, personal tasks that live in lib/repave

How to Customize for You

Yes, you will want to customize this repo.

• Fork this repo and customize
  • Everyone is going to have different preferences and apps
  • Consciously not extracting a grand unifying thing yet
• Assets
  • Update assets/Brewfile for all your installable apps (Homebrew, casks, mac apps)
    • assets/Brewfile to be used always
  • Update assets/gitinclude for git aliases & id's
    • .gitconfig cannot be managed by rcm, so we build it at install time
• Dotfiles
  • Dotfiles live in dotfiles, without prepended dots per RCM convention
    • RCM is installed (via Homebrew) to manage the dotfiles
    • See dotfiles/rcrc for which files are excluded
  • Useful defaults based on how repave works live in zshrc; Put anything you-specific in zshrc
• Add any other personal executable scripts to bin
  • dotfiles/zshrc adds ~/bin to the $PATH
• Make your own tasks
  • Add new Ruby classes in lib/repave to do work (see examples)
  • Edit/add any task classes to bin/repave

FAQ

1. Why not just do this with shell scripts?
   • Because I can never debug shell scripts. So Ruby FTW.
2. Why not Ansible?
   • Ruby FTW.

Contributing

• Please make any tasks idempotnent. The repave script is meant to be run often.
• Please do not add any external dependencies. This is meant to be run on a fresh MacOS very simply.