designed27 / vagrant-heroku

A Vagrant base box that closely mirrors the Celadon Cedar stack on heroku

Update from Sean 11/22/13:

Looks like I did not need to convert to 32bit as the original heroku box is loading fine now.

There was a different issue with a bad version of VirtualBox on my 10.5 mac that was preventing the vagrant original heroku box from running - which led me to fork this in the first place. It kept erroring out with VERR_NO_MEMORY. That was solved by upgrading to VirtualBox 4.1.18.

I was not able to test the 32bit version of this after making the config changes. I ran into issues installing the correct ruby version and gems while trying to bundle it. (I was running inside another Vagrant box to try and develop the new 32bit heroku version.)

I may come back to this as a personal project to practice on later...

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This is a veewee template for building a Vagrant box that closely mirrors the heroku Cedar stack. You can build it yourself by following the directions below or install a prebuilt version from here.

Easy Install

Add the following to your Vagrantfile.

Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
  config.vm.box = "heroku"
  config.vm.box_url = "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/rnc0p8zl91borei/heroku.box"
end

And run vagrant up. The box will be downloaded and imported for you.

This box was last updated 8/19/13. For the latest changes, please follow the instructions below.

Building From Scratch

First, clone the repo and install gems with bundler.

$ git clone https://github.com/ejholmes/vagrant-heroku.git
$ cd vagrant-heroku
$ bundle install

Next, build the box with veewee. Go grab a cup of coffee because this is gonna take a while.

$ bundle exec veewee vbox build heroku

There is also a 2x dyno box available, just substitute every instance of heroku with heroku-2x.

And finally, install the box for use with Vagrant.

$ bundle exec veewee vbox export heroku
$ vagrant box add heroku heroku.box

Now all you have to do is setup vagrant in your project.

$ vagrant init heroku
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh

Included Packages

The packages that are included are carefully selected to closely match those on the Celadon Cedar stack.

• Ubuntu 10.04 64bit
• Ruby 2.0.0-p247 MRI
• RubyGems 2.0.3
• Python with pip, virtualenv, and virtualenvwrapper
• PostgreSQL 9.2.4
• NodeJS 0.4.7
• Foreman https://github.com/ddollar/foreman