Rails Virtual Development Environment on Vagrant

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Configuration files to automatically set up a basic and customizable Vagrant box with the required tools to develop Rails projects.

Usage

1. Install in your computer the software listed the "Prerequisites" section.
2. Clone the repository into your machine.
3. Tweak the provider and the options in the Vagrantfile.
4. Run vagrant up and wait for the machine to be built, then vagrant reload.
5. When the machine is ready, run vagrant ssh and move to the synced folder with cd /vagrant.
6. You may now start a new Rails project with rails new . or adjust the Ruby and gems settings with RVM to match an existent code base.

Prerequisites

• Vagrant
• Virtualbox and the extension pack.

If you notice that there are delays with the synchronization of shared folders with virtualbox as the type, a better option is to use SSHFS or NFS. But usually it works well enough.

Out of the Box Included Software

• Ubuntu Bionic: This Linux distribution is closer to the one used on the Heroku-18 stack.

• Ruby 2.5.x (with RVM): Programming language that supports the Rails framework. The Ruby Version Manager allows to easily use different Ruby versions and gems per project.

• Rails: And other gems to aid the development of web apps. (Current gem distributions):

  • RSpec
  • Cucumber
  • Mailcatcher
  • Pry-Byebug
  • PG
  • Redis-Rails
  • Webpacker
  • Bundler

• Yarn and Webpacker: For Rails projects with heavy use of JavaScript.

• Node.js: Server side JavaScript runtime. (Current stable version).

• Postgres: Advanced SQL database. (Current Bionic distribution).

• Redis: In-memory data structure store. (Current Bionic distribution).

• Heroku CLI: Create and manage Heroku apps from the command line.

• Ngrok: Exposes local servers behind NATs and firewalls to the public internet over secure tunnels.

• ZSH Shell (With Oh-My-Zsh!) Tools to improve the experience of working with the shell.

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