s0undt3ch / vagrant-baseboxes

Vagrant Baseboxes

Vagrant Base Boxes

This project is used to maintain some Veewee definition files which will allow us to (re)create some Vagrant boxes in order to test Salt projects. This is based on Tim Dysinger's work.

The simplest way I've found to have Veewee and Vagrant working without any glitches is by using RVM which is kind of ruby's equivalent of python's virtualenv.

So in some quick easy steps:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential git-core curl
$ curl -L get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --auto
$ . ~/.bash_profile

By now you should have rvm installed. Let's find our which packages we need to install in order for ruby to work:

$ rvm requirements

Example output:

Requirements for Linux "Ubuntu 12.04 LTS"

NOTE: 'ruby' represents Matz's Ruby Interpreter (MRI) (1.8.X, 1.9.X)
             This is the *original* / standard Ruby Language Interpreter
      'ree'  represents Ruby Enterprise Edition
      'rbx'  represents Rubinius

bash >= 4.1 required
curl is required
git is required (>= 1.7 for ruby-head)
patch is required (for 1.8 rubies and some ruby-head's).

To install rbx and/or Ruby 1.9 head (MRI) (eg. 1.9.2-head),
then you must install and use rvm 1.8.7 first.

Additional Dependencies:
# For Ruby / Ruby HEAD (MRI, Rubinius, & REE), install the following:
  ruby: /usr/bin/apt-get install build-essential openssl libreadline6 \
  libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev \
  libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev \
  ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion pkg-config

# For JRuby, install the following:
  jruby: /usr/bin/apt-get install curl g++ openjdk-6-jre-headless
  jruby-head: /usr/bin/apt-get install ant openjdk-6-jdk

# For IronRuby, install the following:
  ironruby: /usr/bin/apt-get install curl mono-2.0-devel

Now, for our use case:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential openssl libreadline6 \
libreadline6-dev curl git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libyaml-dev \
libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt-dev autoconf libc6-dev \
ncurses-dev automake libtool bison subversion pkg-config

Let's install ruby 1.9.3:

rvm install 1.9.3

You will now wait for a while. Grab a coffee... Let's check the ruby version installed and set that as the default for your user:

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.9.3p286 (2012-10-12 revision 37165) [i686-linux]
$ rvm --default use 1.9.3-p286
Using /home/vagrant/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p286

Adapt the version to what you get from the first command. Now whenever we open a new bash session for this user we’ll have Ruby available for us to use!

As an additional side-note: Users can, and should, use a gemset when possible so that they don't pollute their default which is what is selected when a gemset is not specified in either a project's .rvmrc, or at the command-line.

Although not quite related to Veewee and specifically our use case, if you wish to know a bit more of what we've done above, have some nice reading here.

Once you checkout this repository, a .rvmrc will be at your disposal used to setup a gemset.