My presentation on Vagrant is at:
The Vagrant repository that I’m now using for Ruby on Rails development
is
at https://github.com/jhsu802701/vagrant_debian_wheezy_rvm . My Vagrant
base box includes the latest versions of RVM, Chef, and Puppet. Thanks
to
Derek Rockwell for paving the way for me with the Rails.MN Vagrant setup
at GitHub - railsmn/railsmn-dev-box-obsolete: A virtual machine for Ruby on Rails core development .
Unlike most of the Vagrant base boxes that people are using for Ruby on
Rails development, my Vagrant base box uses Debian Stable instead of
Ubuntu. Debian Stable requires only occasional and modest updates. In
contrast, Ubuntu becomes out of date very rapidly and thus requires
frequent and substantial updates.
My Vagrant base boxes are open source. The source code I use to create
my
Vagrant base boxes is
at https://github.com/jhsu802701/packer-debian-wheezy-rvm . I’m using
an
open source program called Packer (http://www.packer.io) to create my
Vagrant base boxes. Thanks to Pierre Mavro for paving the way for me
with
his source code for creating a Debian base box at
GitHub - deimosfr/packer-debian: Packer configuration to generate Debian VirtualBox image/Vagrant boxes
.
If you aren’t already using Vagrant, it’s time to start. I’ve been
taking
action to improve everyone’s Vagrant experience, and I’m making Vagrant
part of my standard operating procedure for Ruby on Rails development.
My
Vagrant setup will be valuable for RailsBridge, Startup Weekend, and
24-hour web site challenges. Vagrant is especially valuable on Windows
computers due to the pitfalls of installing Ruby on Rails in the Windows
environment.