amaia / Rails Starter Box
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A Virtual Machine for Ruby on Rails Application Development
Introduction
This project automates the setup of a development environment for general Ruby on Rails application development.
Inspired by the book "Deploying Rails" and fxn's rails-dev-box
Requirements
How To Build The Virtual Machine
Building the virtual machine is this easy:
host $ git clone https://github.com/amaia/rails-starter-box.git
host $ cd rails-starter-box
host $ git submodule init
host $ git submodule update
host $ vagrant up
If the base box is not present that command fetches it first.
host $ vagrant ssh
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686)
...
[email protected]:~$
Port 3000 in the host computer is forwarded to port 3000 in the virtual machine. Thus, applications running in the virtual machine can be accessed via localhost:3000 in the host computer.
What's In The Box
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Git
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SQLite3, MySQL, and Postgres
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RVM (with ruby 1.9.3 and 1.8.7 installed)
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Bundler, Rails and Rake gems for both rubies
Recommended Workflow
The recommended workflow is
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edit files in the host computer
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run within the virtual machine
Virtual Machine Management
When done just log out with and suspend the virtual machine
host $ vagrant suspend
then, resume to hack again
host $ vagrant resume
Run
host $ vagrant halt
to shutdown the virtual machine, and
host $ vagrant up
to boot it again.
You can find out the state of a virtual machine anytime by invoking
host $ vagrant status
Finally, to completely wipe the virtual machine from the disk destroying all its contents:
host $ vagrant destroy # DANGER: all is gone
Please check the Vagrant documentation for more information on Vagrant.