MonkeyChai's Rails Workspace

Setup

OSX / Windows

1. Have a reasonably good Internet connection for the first run
2. Download and install Vagrant
3. Download and install VirtualBox
4. Clone this repo: git clone [email protected]:monkeychai/rails_workspace
5. cd rails_workspace
6. vagrant up
7. Wait patiently while vagrant downloads the Ubuntu 14.04 image and provisions it. (This part takes a while (like 20mins) on my barely-broadband connection). List of things the bootstrap script does:
   • sets up .gemrc to not install docs
   • rbenv, ruby-build, and their dependencies
   • install rails and bundler
   • install nodejs as a JS runtime
   • install postgresql

Notes

• This machine uses nodejs as the JS env instead of rubyracer (Heroku claims this is better for performance).
• It's a good idea to replace webrick with thin, for better performance.
• Replace the postgresql password in the Vagrantfile with an actual ENV variable
• Use the --skip-bundle flag when you run rails new