redisinitiationworkshop

Installation & Setup

Make sure the following items have been installed on your machine:
- Java 7 or 8
- Git (if you like a pretty interface to deal with git, try SourceTree)
- Maven
Install Oracle VirtualBox https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Install Vagrant https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html (on Mac and Windows the installer will make sure that vagrant command is known in the command prompt)
Clone this repository into your workspace
Open a command prompt, go to the redisinitiationworkshop/vagrant folder and run
```
vagrant up
```
This will start up the vagrant box. The first time will take a while as it has to download the OS image and other dependencies.

Shutting down the vagrant box can be done by typing
```
vagrant halt
```
You can restore the environment back to a clean, working state (in case things go south) by typing
```
vagrant provision
```
You can SSH into the virtual environment with
```
vagrant ssh
```
And when you're done playing around, you can remove all traces of it with
```
vagrant destroy
```
Import the maven projects into IDE of your choice
Run the tests of to verify everything has been setup correctly

IntelliJ users: In some rare cases you might need to set the working directory in the running configurations to $MODULE_DIR$

To avoid this issue, we'll be using a 32bit box for this workshop.