Development environment

Development environment

The dev. environment is currently available in the vagrant branch and is built using a mixture of vagrant and chef on the outside and nginx and mysql on the inside.

Credentials

• IP-Address
• 192.168.56.101
• Hostname
• oss2.vm In the form of [username:password]
• Machine
• vagrant:vagrant
• MySQL
• root:123qwe
• developer:123qwe

Hint: If you need root access, just do

sudo su

Requirements

• Vagrant

• Vagrant hosts updater plugin From within anywhere in your system do

    vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater
  

Getting started

1. Go into or clone the repository

2. Switch to the vagrant branch

    git fetch
    git checkout vagrant
    git submodule update
   

3. Bring vagrant up

    vagrant up
   

Setup the application

1. Change the ruby version in Gemfile (needed once) data/Gemfile from

    ruby "2.0.0"
   

   to

    ruby "1.9.3"    
   

2. Log into vagrant

    vagrant ssh
   

3. Install the needed gems

    cd /vagrant/data
    bundle install --without production
    rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=development
   

Attention: Do not commit this change, as this will break Travis CI!

Using the dev. environment

Accessing the application

Using a web browser go to

http://oss2.vm

or

http://192.168.56.101

Attention: This needs the vagrant hosts updater plugin or otherwise you won't be able to access the page by the vms hostname. You can do this manually by inserting

192.168.56.101  oss2.vm

into your hosts file.

Connecting to vagrant (= the virtual machine)

1. Go into the set up repo (vagrant branch, see Getting started)

2. Connect

    vagrant ssh
   

3. Do whatever you want

Re-setting the dev. environment

1. Go into the set up repo (vagrant branch, see Getting started)

2. Destroy the virtual machine with

    vagrant destroy
   

3. Bring the virtual machine up again with

    vagrant up
   

4. Follow Setup the application

Stopping the virtual machine

1. Go into the set up repo (vagrant branch, see Getting started)

2. Stop the virtual machine with

    vagrant halt