Brew Bundle

Bundler for non-Ruby dependencies from Homebrew

Requirements

Homebrew or Linuxbrew are used for installing the dependencies. Linuxbrew is a fork of Homebrew for Linux, while Homebrew only works on Mac OS X. This tool is primarily developed for use with Homebrew on Mac OS X but should work with Linuxbrew on Linux, too.

brew tap is new feature in Homebrew 0.9, adds more GitHub repos to the list of available formulae.

Homebrew Cask is optional and used for installing Mac applications.

Install

You can install as a Homebrew tap:

$ brew tap Homebrew/bundle

Usage

Create a Brewfile in the root of your project:

$ touch Brewfile

Then list your Homebrew based dependencies in your Brewfile:

cask_args appdir: '/Applications'
tap 'caskroom/cask'
tap 'telemachus/brew', 'https://telemachus@bitbucket.org/telemachus/brew.git'
brew 'imagemagick'
brew 'mysql', restart_service: true, conflicts_with: ['homebrew/versions/mysql56']
brew 'emacs', args: ['with-cocoa', 'with-gnutls']
cask 'google-chrome'
cask 'java' unless system '/usr/libexec/java_home --failfast'
cask 'firefox', args: { appdir: '~/my-apps/Applications' }

You can then easily install all of the dependencies with one of the following commands:

$ brew bundle

If a dependency is already installed and there is an update available it will be upgraded.

Dump

You can create a Brewfile from all the existing Homebrew packages you have installed with:

$ brew bundle dump

The --force option will allow an existing Brewfile to be overwritten as well.

Cleanup

You can also use Brewfile as a whitelist. It's useful for maintainers/testers who regularly install lots of formulae. To uninstall all Homebrew formulae not listed in Brewfile:

$ brew bundle cleanup

Unless the --force option is passed, formulae will be listed rather than actually uninstalled.

Check

You can check there's anything to install/upgrade in the Brewfile by running:

$ brew bundle check

This provides a successful exit code if everything is up-to-date so is useful for scripting.

Restarting services

You can choose whether brew bundle restarts a service every time it's run, or only when the formula is installed or upgraded in your Brewfile:

# Always restart myservice
brew 'myservice', restart_service: true

# Only restart when installing or upgrading myservice
brew 'myservice', restart_service: :changed

Note

Homebrew does not support installing specific versions of a library, only the most recent one so there is no good mechanism for storing installed versions in a .lock file.

If your software needs specific versions then perhaps you'll want to look at using Vagrant to better match your development and production environments.

Contributors

Over 10 different people have contributed to the project, you can see them all here: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle/graphs/contributors

Development

Source hosted at GitHub. Report Issues/Feature requests on GitHub Issues.

Tests can be ran with bundle && bundle exec rake spec

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

• Fork the project.
• Make your feature addition or bug fix.
• Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
• Add documentation if necessary.
• Commit, do not change Rakefile or history.
• Send a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

Copyright

Copyright (c) 2015 Homebrew maintainers and Andrew Nesbitt. See LICENSE for details.