37Coins web dev environment

This configuration will install the latest versions of Nginx, Node.js, Express, Yeoman, and the Yeoman Backbone.js generator. Ruby and the compass gem are installed for the yo build process.

All running on the Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)

Installation

Install Vagrant 1.3.5
Install VirtualBox 4.3
Install Ansible
Install git

Running

Running and provisioning can be handled nicely.

vagrant up  //A new host key might need to be approved for ssh by tying 'yes'.
		    //It may take up to 15 minutes to complete. 
vagrant ssh
cd src/webui
grunt

Access the page on your host at:

http://192.168.111.222:9000/

The repository is synced to your disk, and can be accessed at src/webui/. specifically the css file is located at src/webui/app/styles/mail.scss. editing any file will reload the page in the browser after a few seconds.

Stop it once done:

ctrl+C
vagrant halt

If there are problems:

vagrant provision

If you receive error

Voila! You have a development enviroment with the latest and greatest Node.js, and Yeoman.

Ansible

Ansible is configured to run for the vagrant host and you can see the specified private IP in provisioning/hosts.

If for some reason you want to use a different IP, be aware that you will need to update the Vagrantfile as well as provisioning/hosts.

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
  # Create a private network, which allows host-only access to the machine
  # using a specific IP.
  config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.111.222"
end

Ansible installs the following packages:

git
nodejs
yeoman
generator-angular for yeoman
express
nginx

The nginx services are started after provisioning takes place.

Synced Folders

By default this repo disables directory syncing. If you wish to have this environment checked in as part of the dev process you can create your source directory in the top level of the project and uncomment this line in the Vagrantfile:

# config.vm.synced_folder "src/", "/home/vagrant/path/to/your/project"

This will sync your source folders over SSH so you can develop on your host machine.

Ansible Variables

The file provisioning/group_vars/all contains configurations for your install. This will allow you to configure project directories and things like nginx hostname and the port node js will run on.

VM Configuration

For more on VM configuration options, check out the docs at Vagrant