You can use those bootstrap script to deploy your Rails application to Virtualbox. It's not intended to replace Chef or Puppet, but since its plain bash, its very readable and you can copy some lines and paste to your ssh session...
After installing Vagrant software run vagrant init and edit your Vagrantfile
| =Navigating= | |
| visit('/projects') | |
| visit(post_comments_path(post)) | |
| =Clicking links and buttons= | |
| click_link('id-of-link') | |
| click_link('Link Text') | |
| click_button('Save') | |
| click('Link Text') # Click either a link or a button | |
| click('Button Value') |
| # app/models/concerns/linkable.rb | |
| # | |
| # Generate link that you can use to find resources | |
| # Similar to friendly_id gem but much simpler (one file) and you can easily | |
| # update instead of reading DSL for friendly_id | |
| # You just need to define where to store link and which fields to use | |
| # to generate link | |
| # | |
| # For example: | |
| # rails g migration add_link_to_users link:string |
When a lot of people are working on the same Rails application, than Vagrant could help to set up environment quick and easy. Even Vagrant is not recommended for production, it is very usefull for testing deployment script. For production we can simply copy deployment script and run manually.
We can deploy Ruby on Rails app using a quick way to deploy ruby on rails on vagrant.