Development Setup

Development Environment Setup

Our development setup for Cloudspace Mockups consists of

• VirtualBox accessed via Vagrant
• Chef for the setup of the development box

Once set up, your virtual box will have:

• nginx
• mongo
• nodejs
• npm + required packages
• git

####Virtual Box

Download a new virtual box from: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Start a new virtual box using Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit server edition

####Install vagrant

http://vagrantup.com/docs/getting-started/index.html

Clone the Cloudspace Mockups repo:

git clone git@github.com:cloudspace/mockups.git

In the Cloudspace Mockups project directory:

cp Vagrantfile.default Vagrantfile

Update the Vagrantfile with your server specific settings

####Set up Chef

gem install chef

You can get a lot of good cookbooks by cloning the opscode repo

git clone https://github.com/opscode/cookbooks.git

All of the recipes that you need in order to get a development box up and running are in two places.

1. Vagrantfile.default

   Any recipes that appear as follows chef.add_recipe('[recipe name]') will need to be added your opscode user account

2. There are site-specific cookbooks in [project_root]/site-cookbooks/ that contain site specific overrides for the default chef recipes. These can be added by editing your knife.rb config to include the path to site-cookbooks.

   EX. ~/.chef/knife.rb . . cookbook_path ["#{ENV['HOME']}/cookbooks",'./site-cookbooks'] .

Here I have added a secondary directory based on the current directory I'm in that will look in site-cookbooks. This way I can call:

knife cookbook upload [recipe]

from any project that uses this structure.

From this point you will be ready to deploy to a development environment.

vagrant up #will run all of the chef commands necessary to create a working environment

####Deploy the Application

If you would like to test the deployment through capistrano then run:

cap deploy:check_dependencies #will check to see if you have what you need
cap deploy:setup && cap deploy #will set up and start up your application on the box you just set up

Otherwise, log in to the box and run:

git checkout git@github.com:cloudspace/mockups.git
cd mockups
sudo mongod &    #run mongo as a daemon
sudo node app.js #call node on the file that controls the application