Vagrant box generator

Vagrant box generator allows you to create a vagrant box with all the software needed to build a rails app.

About the system

Currently Installed

• Ruby 2.0.0-p247
• Git 1.7.4
• Postgresql 3.3.0
• QT 4 - for headless browser testing
• RVM 1.23.9 - stable version
• NFS - for faster file system sharing

Installation

Required software

• Vagrant - http://www.vagrantup.com
• Virtualbox - http://www.virtualbox.org
• Install Librarian-chef gem gem install librarian-chef

Steps

1. Clone repository

2. Open a terminal app and browse to the cloned repository

3. Run librarian-chef which downloads cookbooks into a cookbooks folder in that directory librarian-chef install

4. Bring up the vagrant box - this will download a base box and apply chef scripts to it when it is booting up. vagrant up

5. SSH into your newly created box vagrant ssh

6. Fix postgresql UTF8 issue - http://ezekielbinion.com/blog/making-rake-dbcreate-postgres-behave/ psql -U postgres -h localhost

   Run this command inside of psql

    UPDATE pg_database SET datallowconn = TRUE where datname = 'template0';
    \c template0
    UPDATE pg_database SET datistemplate = FALSE where datname = 'template1';
    drop database template1;
    create database template1 with template = template0 encoding = 'UNICODE'  LC_CTYPE = 'en_US.UTF-8' LC_COLLATE = 'C';
    UPDATE pg_database SET datistemplate = TRUE where datname = 'template1';
    \c template1
    UPDATE pg_database SET datallowconn = FALSE where datname = 'template0';