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 = "http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1906634/heroku.box"
end

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

Building From Scratch

First, clone the repo and install gems with bundler.

$ git clone git@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 vagrant basebox build heroku

And finally, install the box for use with Vagrant.

$ bundle exec vagrant basebox export heroku
$ bundle exec vagrant box add heroku heroku.box

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

$ bundle exec vagrant init heroku
$ bundle exec vagrant up
$ bundle exec 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 1.9.2-p290 MRI
• RubyGems 1.3.7
• PostgreSQL 8.3.14
• NodeJS 0.4.7

Gotchas

RubyGems Version

Since heroku uses an older version of RubyGems (1.3.7) you may want to update this in your environment if some of your development gems depend on a newer version.

PostgreSQL Credentials

You can use the username postgres with a nil password. Something like this should work:

development:
  adapter: postgresql
  database: myapp_development
  encoding: unicode
  host: localhost
  username: postgres
  password: