Your dotfiles are how you personalize your system. These are mine.

mkdir ~/repos
git clone https://github.com/mikeschenkel/dotfiles.git ~/repos/dotfiles

cd ~/repos/dotfiles
./install-profile macos

cd ~/repos/dotfiles; ./bin/setup

cd ~/repos/dotfiles; ./macos/set-defaults

upgrade

• Brewfile.base acts as a foundation to every system I use.
• Brewfile.personal contains apps that mostly require a personal account or license.

All formulas in Brewfile.base will be installed by running the dotbot homebrew installer. To install personal formulas, run the following command:

brew bundle --file=~/repos/dotfiles/homebrew/Brewfile.personal

My preferred approach is to visit https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/ and grab the latest stable version of Ruby and install it with rbenv.

rbenv install 2.6.3

After installation, set the installed Ruby version as the global Ruby version on your system.

rbenv global 2.6.3

Finally, run this command to install shims for all Ruby executables known to rbenv.

rbenv rehash

These dotfiles can be easily extended to suit additional local requirements by using local files. These files will be automatically sourced after their non .local variant, thus, allowing its content to add or overwrite settings.

• ~/.zshrc.local
• ~/.vimrc.local
• ~/.tmux.conf.local
• ~/.gitconfig.local

Use ~/.gitconfig.local to store sensitive information such as the git user credentials:

[user]

  name = John Doe
  email = john@example.com

[credential]

  helper = osxkeychain

[commit]

  # Sign commits using GPG.
  # https://help.github.com/articles/signing-commits-using-gpg/
  gpgsign = true

• bin/: Utilities
• git/: Git-related configs
• homebrew/: Brewfiles
• macos/: macOS defaults
• meta/: Installation configs used by dotbot
• npm/: Global npm packages and .npmrc
• resources/: Terminal resources (colors & italics)
• shell/: Shell configs
• system/: Files located in the $HOME directory
• tmux/: .tmux.conf
• vendor/: System dependencies & dotbot
• vim/: .vimrc & plugin settings
• zsh/: All zsh-related files

These dotfiles couldn't have become a reality without the inspiration of these wonderful repositories.

• Mathias Bynens
• Paul Irish
• Zach Holman

MIT

Copyright (c) 2018-present, Mike Schenkel