vagrant-rails.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Purpose: minimalistic provisioning of a fresh vagrant box ubuntu/trusty64 for 
# rails development. Uses shell as the provisioner.

# Ensure OS is up to date
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

# 14.04LTS has Ruby 1.9.3. 15.04 & above have Ruby 2.x
# Add brightbox repository to get newer versions of ruby
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:brightbox/ruby-ng
sudo apt-get update

# Install newer Ruby
sudo apt-get install -y ruby2.1

# Needed for the json gem
sudo apt-get install -y ruby2.1-dev

# Needed by gems that build native extensions
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential

# Needed to build sqlite3 gem
sudo apt-get install -y libsqlite3-dev

# Needed to build mysql gem
sudo apt-get install -y libmysqlclient-dev

# Needed by eventmachine for encrypted connections
sudo apt-get install -y libssl-dev

# Rails needs a JavaScript runtime
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

# Install some essentials
sudo apt-get install -y git
sudo gem install bundler

# Install mysql client
sudo apt-get install -y mysql-client

# Currently manually installing mysql server
# since it prompts for root password
# There are ways to script a silent install
# sudo apt-get install mysql-server

echo 'Welcome! Install mysql-server, then go to your app folder and run: bundle install, rake db:create, etc.. '