On Thursday, February 5, 2015 at 6:29:00 AM UTC, Jason Hsu, Rubyist wrote: > I'm doing my part. My Debian Stable Vagrant box with pre-installed Ruby on > Rails (https://github.com/jhsu802701/vagrant_debian_wheezy_rvm) is now part > of my standard operating procedure. > > Is there any reason that use of Vagrant is NOT already universal in the Ruby > on Rails community? The issues that Vagrant addresses for me are:
I guess I've never felt the need particularly. I haven't timed myself but I certainly don't think it would take hours to install ruby and rails (and in any event this isn't something I do frequently). Windows isn't a concern for me and while I don't use rvm anymore I don't recall having problems with it. It has been discussed as a way of helping new developers get started at work Bundler won't let you load gems not in your Gemfile, so I am not sure what your concern is there. Fred > 1. How can you get Ruby on Rails up and running in minutes instead of hours > WITHOUT Vagrant? At an event like Startup Weekend or a 24-hour web site > challenge, the Drupal, PHP, and Django people can get their teammates ready > to roll in minutes. If you have to install Ruby on Rails without Vagrant, > the process requires several steps and takes hours. Thanks to Vagrant, that > will never again delay myself or anyone on my team from getting started. > 2. How do you install Ruby on Rails in Windows? Very few Ruby on Rails > developers use Windows, which makes it hard to get help. Thanks to Vagrant, > this will never be a problem for myself or anyone I work with, because it's > cross-platform. > 3. If RVM behaves in ways that you don't expect, what do you do? It has > happened to me a few times, though I was able to Google the error messages > and figure out how to fix it. With Vagrant, I can just rebuild the box and > return to original conditions. If you don't have Vagrant, you may not be > able to do anything in Ruby on Rails until you resolve the issue. > 4. How do you know that your gemspec/Gemfile and setup instructions are > complete? This has come back to haunt me when I deployed Rails apps or > published Ruby gems. If you remove dependencies from the Gemspec/Gemfile, > those gems are NOT automatically uninstalled. (And the same goes for other > gems that they pulled in.) Using Vagrant to rebuild my Ruby on Rails > environment allows me to cover these bases. (And since I keep my projects in > the shared directory, I don't have to re-download them.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/aced8364-2f68-4058-b34b-5c4d8a4c55d8%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
