The Arkenstone

The Arkenstone is a Ruby on Rails development environment generator. Its goal is to provide an easy way to spin up a new Vagrant box provisioned for Rails development.

Installation

$ gem install arkenstone

Usage

The Arkenstone provides you with the command line application arkenstone. To create a new Arkenstone environment:

$ arkenstone new path/to/app

Check out the arkenstone help new option to see the available configuration options.

Once, you’ve generated your new environment, cd over to path/to/app and run:

$ vagrant up

Now go grab a cup of coffee or a glass of Scotch or two—this part might take a while. If The Arkenstone detects a SLACK_TOKEN environment variable, it will send a message to the associated Slack channel when its done. For instance:

$ env SLACK_TOKEN=Your/Token/1234 vagrant up

For now, The Arkenstone is busy building a new Vagrant box and doing some initial work for you, such as:

• Installing system software depencies
• Building and installing Ruby
• Installing and setting up PostgreSQL
• Generating a new Rails app with Suspenders

When your new environment is complete, send over an SSH command to fire up the Rails server:

$ vagrant ssh -c '/vagrant/bin/rails server -b 0.0.0.0'

You should now be able to visit the new Rails app on your host machine at http://localhost:3001.

Voilà!

Copyright (c) 2016 Nicholas Scheurich under the MIT License (MIT)