README.md

• This box was created from the blog Developing Ruby on Rails on Windows
• Updated using GoRails - Setting up Vagrant for Rails as a guide

Steps

• Install VirtualBox
• Install Vagrant
• Install 2 plugins for Vagrant
• vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest - Automatically installs the VirtualBox guest additions
• vagrant plugin install vagrant-librarian-chef-nochef - Automatically run Chef when box is started
• NOTE: You might not have to install Ruby on Windows anymore. I haven't tested it yet.
• Install Ruby
• Install the Ruby DevKit
  • Extract to: <ruby_path>\devkit
• Setup the Ruby Dev Kit
  • cd <ruby_path>\devkit
  • ruby dk.rb init
  • ruby dk.rb review
  • ruby dk.rb install
• Clone this repository
  • git clone https://github.com/neilhoff/rails-dev-box.git
• If you are on a Domain that will be used in areas with a network %HOMEDRIVE%
  • Add the VAGRANT_HOME environment variable to Windows and set it somewhere local
  • See Is there a way to change the .vagrant.d location?
• Start the vagrant box
  • vagrant up
  • This will take a while
• SSH into the box
  • vagrant ssh
• Install a ruby version with Rbenv
• rbenv install 2.3.1
• rbenv rehash
• Install bundler
• gem install bundler
• This will be used to install all the dependencies in a Rails or Sinatra projects
• Editing files can be done in Windows because the root of the project is binded to the /vagrant/ folder on the box
• cd /vagrant
• From here you can setup a new project or clone an existing one down
• Shutdown the box
  • vagrant halt

Vagrant Options

• Set the memory or CPUs

config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |v|
  v.memory = 1024
  v.cpus = 2
end

RubyMine Setup

• Setup Remote SDK
  • Ruby Interpreter path:
    • rbenv which ruby should display something like: /usr/local/rbenv/versions/2.1.0/bin/ruby
• Setup Remote Deployment
• See Rubymine and Vagrant

PostgreSQL Notes

• If running rake db:setup fails
  • In config/database.yml you need to add host: localhost
• Create a new user
  • sudo -u postgres createuser username -s
• Set the password
  • sudo -u postgres psql
  • \password username
• PostgreSQL Command Cheat Sheet

Install MongoDB

• http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-ubuntu/

Troubleshooting

• If you are having issues with rbenv
  • See this thread
  • Uninstall the system Ruby sudo apt-get remove ruby
  • rbenv global 2.1.2
  • rbenv rehash
• Run this command if you are running into an issue with installing 'therubyracer' gem
  • sudo apt-get install g++ build-essential
• If you get an error while logging into your new VM with vagrant ssh along the lines of "syntax error on line 7" of /etc/profile.d/rbenv.sh
• The solution is this:
• sudo apt-get install dos2unix
• sudo dos2unix /etc/profile.d/rbenv.sh
• exit
• If you get this error: PG::InvalidParameterValue: ERROR: encoding UTF8 does not match locale en_US DETAIL: The chosen LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding LATIN1.
  • See this StackOverflow thread
• If you get the psql error FATAL: Peer authentication failed for user...
  • See this StackOverflow thread
  • Example of a good /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/pg_hba.conf

    # Database administrative login by Unix domain socket
    local   all             postgres                                peer
    # TYPE  DATABASE        USER            ADDRESS                 METHOD
    local   all             all                                     md5
    # IPv4 local connections:
    host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            md5
    # IPv6 local connections:
    host    all             all             ::1/128                 md5