Vagrant Box for Learning Ruby & Rails

Get yourself an Rails environment without tearing your hair out.

Download the Box

An Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) 64-bit box was created for a Ruby & Rails for Developers Course on 26th July 2012.
Download the ~1GB box file

Build the Box

Requirements

Ruby (for Librarian)
VirtualBox (> 4.1.0) (for Vagrant)
Vagrant (> 1.0)

Setup

$ git clone git://github.com/pootsbook/vagrant-rails-training-box.git

$ cd vagrant-rails-training-box

$ mkdir cookbooks

$ gem install librarian

$ librarian-chef install

$ vagrant up

Acknowledgements

Thanks to @rosstimson, @jamesmills and especially @DanThiffault. See http://blog.119labs.com/2012/03/rails-vagrant-chef/ for inspiration.

References

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9246786/how-can-i-get-chef-to-run-apt-get-update-before-running-other-recipes

vagrant-rails-training-box

Commits

Add reference for vendoring PostgreSQL

Add PostgreSQL to the box

Change node.js from https to git, change to vendor

Correctly reference Ubuntu Precise

Improve the flow

Link to box and better setup instructions

README