Play! 2.1.1 w/ Vagrant

A Ubuntu 10.04 Vagrant setup with Play! 2.1.1 and Scala 2.10.1.

Requirements

• VirtualBox - Free virtualization software Downloads
• Vagrant - Tool for working with virtualbox images Vagrant Home, click on 'download now link'
• Git - Source Control Management Downloads

Setup

• Clone this repository git clone {git://github.com/SegFaultx64/vagrant-play.git}
• Modify Vagrantfile to set it's git address to be that of you app if you would like
• run vagrant up inside the newly created directory
• (the first time you run vagrant it will need to fetch the virtual box image which is ~300mb so depending on your download speed this could take some time)
• Vagrant will then use Chef Solo to provision the base virtual box with the Typesafe stack (this could take a few minutes, the JDK is big and Ubuntu's mirrors are slow)
• You can verify that everything was successful by opening http://localhost:9000 in a browser
• NOTE: The first time you hit the Play! application it will have to compile which takes a long time. Also it takes a while for the Play! framework to load the project file so if you try to hit the address in the first 1 minute or so after the box comes up you will get an error.

What Else is on Here?

• zsh - Because I am far too used to it to switch back to bash
• oh_my_zsh - Otherwise zsh is a pain to configure especially from Chef
• git - Used for pulling down oh_my_zsh and your projects
• screen - Used to run Play! in interactive mode in the background

Usage

Some basic information on interacting with the vagrant box

Port Forwards

• 9000 - Play

Custom Commands

• play_console: This will connect you to the GNU screen on which the play console is running. To disconnect without exiting Play! do ctrl + a + d. To stop play do ctrl + d as normal.

Vagrant

Vagrant is very well documented but here are a few common commands:

• vagrant up starts the virtual machine and provisions it
• vagrant suspend will essentially put the machine to 'sleep' with vagrant resume waking it back up
• vagrant halt attempts a graceful shutdown of the machine and will need to be brought back with vagrant up
• vagrant ssh gives you shell access to the virtual machine

Support?

Hit me up on Twitter @ReluctantHipstr

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Virtual Machine Specifications

• OS - Ubuntu 10.04
• Play - 2.1.1
• Scala - 2.10.1
• JDK - OpenJDK 1.6.0_27