Dotfiles

Personal configuration for zsh, vim, git, and related tools.

Install

Requires Homebrew.

git clone git@github.com:peterjm/dotfiles.git ~/.dotfiles
cd ~/.dotfiles
rake

This will:

1. Install Homebrew packages (see Brewfile)
2. Install git-freeze
3. Install the latest Ruby via ruby-install
4. Generate git config
5. Symlink dotfiles from system/ to ~/ (e.g. _vimrc becomes ~/.vimrc)
6. Install vim-plug and vim plugins
7. Install Ruby gems

Update

Running rake again will update everything — Homebrew packages, vim plugins, and gems.

Uninstall

rake clean

Removes gems, downloaded scripts, vim plugins, and symlinks.

Structure

system/          Dotfiles — underscore prefix becomes a dot when symlinked
system/bin/      Scripts added to PATH (test-that, git-*, related-files, etc.)
system/_zsh/     Zsh interactive shell config (sourced by _zshrc)
system/_zsh/env/ Zsh environment config (sourced by _zprofile)
src/             Ruby helpers for the Rakefile
gitconfigure/    Git config sources
Brewfile         Homebrew packages

Shell config files use numbered prefixes to control load order (e.g. 005_, 010_, 050_).

Per-machine config

Additional dotfiles can be loaded from Dropbox for per-machine or shared-secret configuration:

• ~/Dropbox/dotfiles/system/common/ — shared across all machines
• ~/Dropbox/dotfiles/system/{hostname}/ — machine-specific

These follow the same directory structure as system/.

Key tools

• zsh — primary shell
• vim — editor, with fzf, vim-test, NERDTree, fugitive
• ripgrep — code search
• fzf — fuzzy finder
• chruby + ruby-install — Ruby version management
• fnm — Node.js version management
• git-freeze — stash alternative for git
• test-that (tt) — smart test runner for Ruby/Rails/RSpec/Python projects