Purpose

Creating Ruby on Rails virtual environment based on Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit/Vagrant/VirtualBox

Steps

1. Install git, if you don't have one yet.

- Instructions for WindowsOS

• Windows users can use install git for Windows from https://windows.github.com/
• When you start installing prerequisites for github for windows and will ask you for reboot
• After reboot it will start installing github for windows
• Once installation completes, it will pop up the windows to login with you github credentials. Enter them.
• On your Desktop you will find Git Shell shortcut, click on it. (Always use Git Shell instead of Command Prompt)
• Move to the directory where you want to clone https://github.com/tenzan/ror-dev-env

2. Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/tenzan/ror-dev-env.git and cd to the repo.

3. Install latest Virtualbox. As of Jun 9, 2015 the latest version is 4.3.28

- Windows

Download and install from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.28/VirtualBox-4.3.28-100309-Win.exe

- Mac OS X. There're several ways, but here I write about homebrew

• Install homebrew if you don't have one: ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

• brew tap caskroom/cask

• brew cask install virtualbox

- Ubuntu

Ref.: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

• Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian trusty contrib

• wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

• Assuming version 4.3 is the latest. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.3

• You may need to run sudo apt-get install dkms

4. Install Vagrant

To learn more: https://www.vagrantup.com/

- Windows

Download and install from https://dl.bintray.com/mitchellh/vagrant/vagrant_1.7.2.msi

- Mac OS X

brew cask install vagrant

- Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install vagrant

Note: The following steps are common for any OS

5. Add the vagrant box ubuntu-14.04-x64

vagrant box add ubuntu-14.04-x64 https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/vagrant/trusty/current/trusty-server-cloudimg-amd64-vagrant-disk1.box

6. Starting vagrant. Username and password for the VM: vagrant

vagrant up

Note: At some point you will need to download and mount VBoxGuestAdditions ISO image to your VirtualBox: http://dlc-cdn.sun.com/virtualbox/4.3.28/VBoxGuestAdditions_4.3.28.iso

7. Test if it's working

Login your VM via vagrant ssh ubuntu via your terminal and run the following bunch of commands by copy&pasting:

rails new myapp &&
cd myapp &&
bundle install &&
rails s -b 0.0.0.0

7. To check if myapp is running, on your host machine's browser, access http://10.20.30.100:3000

Recommended for reading: http://stackoverflow.com/a/30723007/1745902

When you want to rebuild your vagrant environment, run:

vagrant destroy --force && rm -rf .vagrant && vagrant up

Shared folder ~/work.

As this folder is shared between Host and Guest OS, you fire up your editor/IDE on your host machine and have your code running in the Guest OS.