Set up my vagrant rails development box

Installation

• Install git, ruby
• Install virtualbox using the packages at Download VirtualBox
• Install vagrant using the installation instructions in the Getting Started document
• run the following commands:

gem install puppet librarian-puppet
vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest
vagrant box add vagrant-rails-dev http://puppet-vagrant-boxes.puppetlabs.com/ubuntu-server-1204-x64.box
git clone https://github.com/salimane/vagrant-rails-dev.git
cd vagrant-rails-dev/puppet
librarian-puppet install --clean
vagrant up
vagrant ssh

Installed components

• zsh
• nginx
• sysctl configurations for lot of connections
• rbenv + rails
• percona mysql server
• postgresql
• redis
• memcached
• heroku toolbelt
• weighttp

Hints

Provisioning

To provision again in case of update or errors while the virtual machine is already up, use:

vagrant provision

It just runs puppet to apply manifests without restarting the virtual machine.

Startup speed

To speed up the startup process after the first run, use:

vagrant up --no-provision

It just starts the virtual machine without provisioning of the puppet recipes.