Heroku-like Vagrant setup

0_README.md

Summary

This will setup Heroku-like box using VirtualBox. For more information about base box go here

Requirements

You should have VirtualBox and Vagrant installed.

Steps

• In your project root create Vagrantfile using template provided here.
• On your host machine run commands from 2_host.sh
• On your guest machine run commands from 3_guest.sh

After that you should have /vagrant on guest machine be a shared dir with host machine and it will contain the files from dir in which you created Vagrantfile.

1_Vagrantfile

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "lazygray/heroku-cedar-14"
  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", :nfs => true
  config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.1.42"  # required for NFS
end

2_host.sh

# run these on your host machine

# fix for Vagrant 1.8.7 which has problems with downloading boxes
# make sure you have system curl installed
# see https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/7969
# NOTE: this step is only required if you are using Vagrant 1.8.7
sudo rm -rf /opt/vagrant/embedded/bin/curl

# for more about the box your are going to install visit:
# https://atlas.hashicorp.com/lazygray/boxes/heroku-cedar-14

# in dir where Vagrantfile is located
vagrant up
vagrant ssh

3_guest.sh

# run these on your guest machine, i.e. within your virtual machine

# upgrade ruby-build to be able to install newer Ruby versions
cd /home/vagrant/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build && git pull

rbenv install 2.2.3
rbenv global 2.2.3
gem install bundler

Potential problems:

1. during bundle install I needed to install nikogiri gem separate gem install nokogiri -v '1.6.8'
2. before rake db:create I needed to create postgres user with
   sudo -u postgres createuser --createdb vagrant
3. after rake db:schema:load we need to go in rails console and create one House
   House.create(title: "First House", actual_value: 100000)
4. start rails server: bundle exec rails s -b 0.0.0.0
5. find app on 192.168.1.42:3000

For Cucumber:

1. sudo apt-get update
2. sudo apt-get install firefox
3. sudo apt-get install xvfb
4. sudo wget -O /etc/init.d/xvfb https://gist.github.com/basti/2db0b71e893ee4d6d015/raw/5a3d63996b61ef034074a6ffd6cd07d4801fcde7/xvfb
5. sudo chmod a+x /etc/init.d/xvfb
6. export DISPLAY=:10
7. sudo /etc/init.d/xvfb start

Note: read this blog post http://icebergist.com/posts/headless-firefox-in-ubuntu-on-virtual-box-for-cucumber-testing/