Lightweight Vagrant VM for Rails Development

Using The VM

-Install VirtualBox

-Install Vagrant

-Import VM into Vagrant

$ vagrant box add bastli_box http://www.bastli.ethz.ch/dev/package.box

-Go into working directory and Init the VM

$ vagrant init bastli_box

$ vagrant up

-SSH into VM

$ vagrant ssh

-Suspend VM

$ vagrant suspend

-Resume VM

$ vagrant resume

-Halt VM

$ vagrant halt

-Start VM

$ vagrant up

Building and Packaging VM

-Install VirtualBox

-Install Vagrant

-Install Ruby

-Install Librarian Gem

$ gem install librarian

-Install git

-Clone Git Repo

-Setup Cookbooks

librarian-chef install

-Build VM

$ vagrant up

-Make updates and changes if necessary

-Package VM

$ vagrant package --vagrantfile Vagrantfile.pkg