VM

My personal virtual machine for rails development

Requirements

• VirtualBox

• Vagrant

SSH Keys

If you intend on using git from inside the VM, Make sure your ssh-agent is forwarding your keys (

• Run ssh-add -L on your host, and make sure your Github private key is in there.
• Match it against the Github fingerprint (ssh-keygen -l -f /path/to/your/ssh/pubkey). The standard key location is ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
• If not, ssh-add -K /path/to/your/private/key (standard location is ~/.ssh/id_rsa)
• On successful add, it will report Identity added: /your/ssh/private/key
• If you have no keys at all, read SSH key help for directions on creating and adding keys to Github.

Vagrant commands

• vagrant up will start the vagrant server (if suspended / halted).
• vagrant halt will shut down the VM entirely.
• vagrant suspend will hibernate the VM.
• vagrant status will show the current VM status.
• vagrant provision will redo the VM setup (without cloning the repositories OR creating databases).
• vagrant reload --provision will force provision your VM.

Troubleshooting

Port Conflicts

• lsof -i :3000 Checks for current processes on 3000
• kill -9 <PID> Kill the process by PID