Setup a dev environment for Gitlab.

The final product contain all databases set up, working tests and all gems installed.

• VirtualBox
• Vagrant
• the NFS packages. Already there if you are using Mac OS, and not necessary if you are using Windows.
• some patience :)

Clone the repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlab-vagrant-vm
$ cd gitlab-vagrant-vm

And install gems and chef's necessary packages:

$ bundle install
$ bundle exec librarian-chef install

Finally, you should be able to use:

$ vagrant up

You'll be asked for your password to set up NFS shares.

Once everything is done you can log into the virtual machine to run tests:

$ vagrant ssh
$ cd /vagrant/gitlabhq/
$ bundle exec rake gitlab:test

You should also configure your own remote since by default it's going to grab gitlab's master branch.

$ git remote add mine git://github.com/me/gitlabhq.git
$ # or if you prefer set up your origin as your own repository
$ git remote set-url origin git://github.com/me/gitlabhq.git

When done just log out with ^D and suspend the virtual machine

$ vagrant suspend

then, resume to hack again

$ vagrant resume

Run

$ vagrant halt

to shutdown the virtual machine, and

$ vagrant up

to boot it again.

You can find out the state of a virtual machine anytime by invoking

$ vagrant status

Finally, to completely wipe the virtual machine from the disk destroying all its contents:

$ vagrant destroy # DANGER: all is gone

• Virtual Machine IP: 192.168.3.14
• User/password: vagrant/vagrant
• MySQL user/password: vagrant/Vagrant
• MySQL root password: nonrandompasswordsaregreattoo
• Xvfb is used as a service and it should be already running, but in case you need to restart it manually:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/xvfb stop
$ sudo /etc/init.d/xvfb start

Stacktrace of this failure can be found in this gist . This is caused by an error in rvm which causes chef-rvm cookbook to fail. This problem should be fixed with rvm version 1.16.18. Temporary solution for this is provided in this commit. In cookbooks/rvm/libraries/chef_rvm_ruby_helpers.rb change the line 41 to

@installed_rubies = @rvm_env.list_strings.reject {|e| e == 'nil'}

and run vagrant up again to complete the installation.