/rails-vagrant-web-devbox

Vagrant box for web development.

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Vagrant web development box

A Virtual machine bundled with essentials tools for web development.

Requirements

How to use

After you install Vagrant and VirtualBox, open your terminal and type:

$ git clone https://github.com/hugw/vagrant-web-devbox.git
$ cd vagrant-web-devbox/vagrant
$ vagrant up

Now your ready to start! Your Box has two folder, "vagrant" and "devbox":

  • /vagrant has all the config files and provisions to boot the machine. Everytime you need to command your box to start or stop, it has to be done inside it.

  • /devbox is your development folder that will be synced to /devbox inside your virtual machine.

Example

$ vagrant ssh # Enter the machine
$ cd /devbox  # Ready to work

Tips

  • The Postgres server will start automatically, no need to type any command.

  • There are two default users to use on Postgres

    • User: postgres, Pass: postgres (has remote access on port 5432 and host 0.0.0.0)
    • User: root, Pass: root

  • To config your Redis server, enter the following commands on the terminal:

$ cd redis-stable/utils
$ sudo ./install_server.sh
$ sudo service redis_6379 start # To start the server
$ sudo service redis_6379 stop # To stop the server
$ sudo update-rc.d redis_6379 defaults # To run the server on startup

  • There is no rails gem installed by default so you can choose your own version to install.

  • For rails 4.2+ you need to use the alias rs to start the server because it will bind by default to 127.0.0.1/localhost instead of 0.0.0.0.

 $ rs # is the same as typing rails s -b 0.0.0.0

  • There is a .profile inside /devbox folder that is linked to the virtual machine, any script you put on it, will be executed.

  • If you wish to customize your box, /vagrant/Vagrantfile is your aswner. If you need more help with configuring your box, access the vagrant docs.

  • If you use mailcatcher gem, the port 1080 is already been forwarded by vagrant. But to work properly, you need to start mailcatcher binding to all IPs addresses.

$ mailcatcher --http-ip 0.0.0.0

Useful commands

SSH into a running Vagrant machine and give you access to a shell.

$ vagrant ssh

Creates and configures the machine.

$ vagrant up

Shuts down the running machine.

$ vagrant halt

Stops the running machine Vagrant is managing and destroys all resources.

$ vagrant destroy

What's inside

  • Git
  • NodeJs / Npm
  • SQlite3
  • PostgreSQL
  • RVM with Ruby 2.1.1
  • Heroku Toolbelt
  • Redis Server

Version history

  • 0.0.1

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014. Hugo W. - hugo.wnt@gmail.com

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