rails on windows with vagrant

Some notes on setting up Rails on Windows with a Vagrant Ubuntu box.

Step 1: Installing Vagrant

1. Install VirtualBox. I'm using version 5.1.24.

2. Install Vagrant. (Version 1.9.7.)

3. Test it's working with vagrant -v.

4. Add the box: vagrant box add ubuntu/xenial64.

5. Create the project folder, cd into it and vagrant init.

6. Add hashicorp/precise64 to the config.vm.box in Vagrantfile.

Step 2: Installing Ruby

This entire section is taken from this guide.

1. sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get install git-core curl zlib1g-dev build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libxslt1-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev python-software-properties libffi-dev nodejs.

cd
git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL
git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL
rbenv install 2.4.0
rbenv global 2.4.0
ruby -v

I end up with Ruby version 2.4.0.

3. gem install bundler and rbenv rehash.

Step 3: Installing Rails

1. gem install rails and rbenv rehash. Gets me Rails version 5.1.2.

2. Add this line to Vagrantfile: config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 3000, host: 3000.

3. vagrant up and vagrant ssh.

4. rails new myApp, cd myApp.

5. Start the server with rails s -b 0.0.0.0.

6. In Windows go to localhost:3000.