complete revamp

This is a complete revamp of the virtual machine. Notable changes:

* Based on Ubuntu 14.04.

* Brightbox packages for Ruby.

* Shell provisioning.

After dealing with Puppet for some time, with modules for apt, concat,
mysql, postgres, ruby, stdlib, and what not, I had enough. This VM is
designed for Rails core contributors and we do not need to learn a DSL
that runs across distros and it is idempotent. It is better for this
particular virtual machine to have one simple bootstrapping shell
script that is procedural and anyone can understand and maintain.

Support for VMware and Parallels has been removed because I cannot
test the new Vagrantfile in these providers. If you really care about
them for Rails **core** development please send a PR to restore them
with the updated configuration. (Rails application development is not
relevant for this VM, please do not send changes motivated by that use
case.)

Author: fxn

README.md

@@ -2,15 +2,15 @@
 
 ## Introduction
 
-This project automates the setup of a development environment for working on Ruby on Rails itself. Use this virtual machine to work on a pull request with everything ready to hack and run the test suites.
+**Please note this VM is not designed for Rails application development, only Rails core development.**
 
-**Please note this virtual machine is not designed to be used for Rails application development.**
+This project automates the setup of a development environment for working on Ruby on Rails itself. Use this virtual machine to work on a pull request with everything ready to hack and run the test suites.
 
 ## Requirements
 
-* [VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org) or [VMWare Fusion](http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion) or [Parallels Desktop](http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/)(need Vagrant 1.5+, see [vagrant-parallels](http://parallels.github.io/vagrant-parallels/docs/installation/index.html))
+* [VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org)
 
-* [Vagrant 1.1+](http://vagrantup.com) (not a Ruby gem)
+* [Vagrant](http://vagrantup.com)
 
 ## How To Build The Virtual Machine
 
@@ -22,39 +22,39 @@ Building the virtual machine is this easy:
 
 That's it.
 
-(If you want to use VMWare Fusion instead of VirtualBox, write `vagrant up --provider=vmware_fusion` instead of `vagrant up` when building the VM for the first time. After that, Vagrant will remember your provider choice, and you won't need to include the `provider` flag again.)
-
-(If you want to use Parallels Desktop instead of VirtualBox, you need Vagrant 1.5+, and write `vagrant up --provider=parallels` instead of `vagrant up` when building the VM for the first time. After that, Vagrant will remember your provider choice, and you won't need to include the `provider` flag again.)
-
-If the base box is not present that command fetches it first. The setup itself takes about 3 minutes in my MacBook Air. After the installation has finished, you can access the virtual machine with
+After the installation has finished, you can access the virtual machine with
 
     host $ vagrant ssh
-    Welcome to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.2.0-23-generic-pae i686)
+    Welcome to Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (GNU/Linux 3.13.0-36-generic i686)
     ...
     vagrant@rails-dev-box:~$
 
 Port 3000 in the host computer is forwarded to port 3000 in the virtual machine. Thus, applications running in the virtual machine can be accessed via localhost:3000 in the host computer.
 
 ## What's In The Box
 
-* Git
+* Development tools
 
-* RVM
+* Git
 
-* Ruby 2.1.1 (binary RVM install)
+* Ruby 2.1
 
 * Bundler
 
 * SQLite3, MySQL, and Postgres
 
-* System dependencies for nokogiri, sqlite3, mysql, mysql2, and pg
-
 * Databases and users needed to run the Active Record test suite
 
-* Node.js for the asset pipeline
+* System dependencies for nokogiri, sqlite3, mysql, mysql2, and pg
 
 * Memcached
 
+* Redis
+
+* RabbitMQ
+
+* An ExecJS runtime
+
 ## Recommended Workflow
 
 The recommended workflow is

Vagrantfile

@@ -1,27 +1,10 @@
 # -*- mode: ruby -*-
 # vi: set ft=ruby :
 Vagrant.configure('2') do |config|
-  config.vm.box      = 'precise32'
-  config.vm.box_url  = 'http://files.vagrantup.com/precise32.box'
+  config.vm.box      = 'ubuntu/trusty32'
   config.vm.hostname = 'rails-dev-box'
 
-  config.vm.provider 'vmware_fusion' do |v, override|
-    override.vm.box     = 'precise64'
-    override.vm.box_url = 'http://files.vagrantup.com/precise64_vmware.box'
-  end
-
-  config.vm.provider 'parallels' do |v, override|
-    override.vm.box = 'parallels/ubuntu-12.04'
-    override.vm.box_url = 'https://vagrantcloud.com/parallels/ubuntu-12.04'
-
-    # Can be running at background, see https://github.com/Parallels/vagrant-parallels/issues/39
-    v.customize ['set', :id, '--on-window-close', 'keep-running']
-  end
-
   config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 3000, host: 3000
 
-  config.vm.provision :puppet do |puppet|
-    puppet.manifests_path = 'puppet/manifests'
-    puppet.module_path    = 'puppet/modules'
-  end
+  config.vm.provision :shell, path: 'bootstrap.sh', keep_color: true
 end

bootstrap.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+# The ouput of all these installation steps is noisy. With this utility
+# the progress report is nice and concise.
+function install {
+    echo installing $1
+    shift
+    apt-get -y install "$@" >/dev/null 2>&1
+}
+
+echo updating package information
+apt-add-repository -y ppa:brightbox/ruby-ng >/dev/null 2>&1
+apt-get -y update >/dev/null 2>&1
+
+install 'development tools' build-essential
+
+install Ruby ruby2.1 ruby2.1-dev
+update-alternatives --set ruby /usr/bin/ruby2.1 >/dev/null 2>&1
+update-alternatives --set gem /usr/bin/gem2.1 >/dev/null 2>&1
+
+echo installing Bundler
+gem install bundler -N >/dev/null 2>&1
+
+install Git git
+install SQLite sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev
+install memcached memcached
+install Redis redis-server
+install RabbitMQ rabbitmq-server
+
+install PostgreSQL postgresql postgresql-contrib libpq-dev
+sudo -u postgres createuser --superuser vagrant
+sudo -u postgres createdb -O vagrant activerecord_unittest
+sudo -u postgres createdb -O vagrant activerecord_unittest2
+
+debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server mysql-server/root_password password root'
+debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server mysql-server/root_password_again password root'
+install MySQL mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev
+mysql -uroot -proot <<SQL
+CREATE USER 'rails'@'localhost';
+CREATE DATABASE activerecord_unittest  DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
+CREATE DATABASE activerecord_unittest2 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
+GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON activerecord_unittest.* to 'rails'@'localhost';
+GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON activerecord_unittest2.* to 'rails'@'localhost';
+GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON inexistent_activerecord_unittest.* to 'rails'@'localhost';
+SQL
+
+install 'Nokogiri dependencies' libxml2 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev
+install 'ExecJS runtime' nodejs
+
+# Needed for docs generation.
+update-locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
+
+echo 'all set, rock on!'