# 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:

  
      node default {
        # core modules, needed for most things
        include dnsmasq
        <...>
      }

  All Puppet 
  [class declarations](http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/modules1.html#classes) 
  should be included in the default node definition.  Theoretically, you _COULD_ 
  declare every 
  [Puppet resource](http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/ral.html) in the 
  `manifests/site.pp` file, but that would quickly become unwieldy. Instead, 
  it's easier to create 
  [Puppet modules](http://docs.puppetlabs.com/learning/modules1.html#modules) 
  inside the `modules` folder of the Boxen repo. Boxen is setup to discover any 
  modules you create in the `modules` folder, and we've already created a 
  `people` and `projects` module structure for you to start using.
  
  ### 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.