#292 Virtual Machines with Vagrant

Oct 24, 2011 | 11 minutes | Tools

Vagrant allows you to run your Rails application and all of its dependencies in a portable, sharable environment. Use for development, set it up as a staging server, or experiment with a production setup.

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          Vagrantfile
        
config.vm.forward_port "rails", 3000, 3000

          Gemfile
        
gem 'therubyracer'

          bash
        
# setup vagrant
gem install vagrant
vagrant box add lucid32 http://files.vagrantup.com/lucid32.box
rails new todo
cd todo
vagrant init lucid32
mate Vagrantfile
vagrant up
vagrant ssh

# inside virtual machine
whoami
cd /vagrant
ruby -v
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential zlib1g-dev curl git-core sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev

# install rbenv and Ruby 1.9.2
git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bash_profile
source .bash_profile
git clone git://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git
cd ruby-build/
sudo ./install.sh 
rbenv install 1.9.2-p290

# get Rails running
cd /vagrant
gem install bundler
rbenv rehash
bundle
bundle exec rails s

# vagrant commands
vagrant reload
vagrant status
vagrant suspend
vagrant resume
vagrant halt
vagrant up
vagrant package
vagrant destroy