A Virtual Machine for Ruby on Rails Application Development

This project automates the setup of a development environment for general Ruby on Rails application development.

• VirtualBox

• Vagrant

• Ansible

Building the virtual machine is this easy:

host $ git clone https://github.com/pragmaticivan/minotauro_vagrant_rails.git
host $ cd minotauro_vagrant_rails
host $ vagrant up

If the base box is not present that command fetches it first.

host $ vagrant ssh
Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686)
...
vagrant@minotaurorailsbox:~$

Port 3000 in the host computer is forwarded to port 3000 in the virtual machine. This, applications running in the virtual machine can be accessed via localhost:3000 in the host computer.

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• RVM
• MongoDB
• Redis
• Elasticsearch

The recommended workflow is

• edit files in the host computer

• run within the virtual machine

• For mysql the default user is root: mysql -u root
• For postgresql the default user is minotauro and the password is minotauro

When done just log out with and suspend the virtual machine

host $ vagrant suspend

then, resume to hack again

host $ vagrant resume

Run

host $ vagrant halt

to shutdown the virtual machine, and

host $ vagrant up

to boot it again.

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

host $ vagrant status

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

host $ vagrant destroy # DANGER: all is gone

Please check the Vagrant documentation for more information on Vagrant.