# Our Boxen

  
  This is a template Boxen project designed for your organization to fork and
  modify appropriately.

  The Boxen rubygem and the Boxen puppet modules are only a framework for getting
  things done.
  This repository template is just a basic example of _how_ to do things with them.

  
  ## Getting Started

  1. Install XCode Command Line Tools and/or full XCode.
  1. Create a new repository on GitHub as your user for your Boxen. (eg.

  `wfarr/my-boxen`). **Make sure it is a private repository!**

  1. Get running like so:

    ```
    mkdir -p ~/src/my-boxen
    cd ~/src/my-boxen
    git init
    git remote add upstream https://github.com/boxen/our-boxen
    git fetch upstream
    git co -b master upstream/master
    git remote add origin https://github.com/wfarr/my-boxen
    git push origin master
    
    script/boxen
    ```
  1. Close and reopen your Terminal. If you have a shell config file
  (eg. `~/.bashrc`) you'll need to add this at the very end:
  `[ -f /opt/boxen/env.sh ] && source /opt/boxen/env.sh`, and reload
  your shell.

  1. Confirm the Boxen env has loaded: `boxen --env`

  Now you have your own my-boxen repo that you can hack on.
  You may have noticed we didn't ask you to fork the repo.
  This is because when our-boxen goes open source that'd have some
  implications about your fork also potentially being public.
  That's obviously quite bad, so that's why we strongly suggest you
  create an entirely separate repo and simply pull the code in, as shown above.

  
  ## What You Get
  
  This template project provides the following by default:
  
  * Homebrew
  * Git
  * Hub
  * DNSMasq w/ .dev resolver for localhost
  * NVM
  * RBenv
  * Full Disk Encryption requirement
  * NodeJS 0.4
  * NodeJS 0.6
  * NodeJS 0.8
  * Ruby 1.8.7
  * Ruby 1.9.2
  * Ruby 1.9.3
  * Ack
  * Findutils
  * GNU-Tar
  
  ## Customizing

  You can always check out the number of existing modules we already
  provide as optional installs under the
  [boxen organization](https://github.com/boxen). These modules are all
  tested to be compatible with Boxen. Use the `Puppetfile` to pull them

  in dependencies automatically whenever `boxen` is run. 

  ### Node definitions

  Puppet has the concept of a 
  ['node'](http://docs.puppetlabs.com/references/glossary.html#agent), 
  which is essentially the machine on which Puppet is running. Puppet looks for 
  [node definitions](http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/agent_master_basic.html#node-definitions) 
  in the `manifests/site.pp` file in the Boxen repo. You'll see a default node 
  declaration that looks like the following:

  ``` puppet
  node default {
    # core modules, needed for most things
    include dnsmasq
  
    # more...
  }
  ```

  ### How Boxen interacts with Puppet
  
  Boxen runs everything declared in `manifests/site.pp` by default. 
  But just like any other source code, throwing all your work into one massive 
  file is going to be difficult to work with. Instead, we recommend you 
  use modules via the `Puppetfile` when you can and making new modules 
  in the `modules/` directory when you can't. Then you just need to 
  `include $modulename` those modules in `manifests/site.pp`. One pattern 
  that's very common is to create a module for your organization 
  (eg. `modules/github`) and put an environment class in that module 
  to include all of the modules your organization wants to install for 
  everyone by default. An example of this might look like so:

  ``` puppet
  # modules/github/manifests/environment.pp

   class github::environment {
     include github::apps::mac
  
     include ruby::1-8-7
  
     include projects::super-top-secret-project
   }
   ```
  
   If you'd like to read more about how Puppet  works, we recommend 
   checking out [the official documentation](http://docs.puppetlabs.com/) 
   for:
  
   * [Modules](http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/modules1.html#modules)
   * [Classes](http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/modules1.html#classes)
   * [Defined Types](http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/definedtypes.html)
   * [Facts](http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/custom_facts.html)

  
  ### Creating a personal module
  
  See [the documentation in the
  `modules/people`](https://github.com/boxen/our-boxen/blob/master/modules/people/README.md)
  directory for creating per-user modules that don't need to be applied
  globally to everyone.
  
  ### Creating a project module
  
  See [the documentation in the
  `modules/projects`](https://github.com/boxen/our-boxen/blob/master/modules/projects/README.md)
  directory for creating organization projects (read: repositories that people
  will be working in).

  
  ## Binary packages
  
  We support binary packaging for everything in Homebrew, RBEnv, and NVM.
  See `config/boxen.rb` for the environment variables to define.