Vagrant Box for Learning Ruby & Rails

Get yourself an Rails environment without tearing your hair out.

Download the Box

An Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) 64-bit box was created for a Ruby & Rails for Developers Course on 26th July 2012.
Download the ~1GB box file

Build the Box

Requirements

• Ruby (for Librarian)
• VirtualBox (> 4.1.0) (for Vagrant)
• Vagrant (> 1.0)

Setup

$ git clone git://github.com/pootsbook/vagrant-rails-training-box.git

$ cd vagrant-rails-training-box

$ mkdir cookbooks

$ gem install librarian

$ librarian-chef install

$ vagrant up

Acknowledgements

Thanks to @rosstimson, @jamesmills and especially @DanThiffault. See http://blog.119labs.com/2012/03/rails-vagrant-chef/ for inspiration.

References

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9246786/how-can-i-get-chef-to-run-apt-get-update-before-running-other-recipes