# 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.
    * If using full Xcode, you'll need to agree to the license by running: `xcodebuild -license`

  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. Use your install of [boxen-web](https://github.com/boxen/boxen-web) or get running manually 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 checkout -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.

  ## Getting your users started _after_ your "fork" exists

  1. Install the Xcode Command Line Tools (full Xcode install optional).

  1. Point them at your private install of [boxen-web](https://github.com/boxen/boxen-web), **OR** have them run the following:

  
  ```
  sudo mkdir -p /opt/boxen
  sudo chown $USER:admin /opt/boxen
  git clone https://github.com/yourorg/yourreponame.git /opt/boxen/repo
  cd /opt/boxen/repo
  script/boxen
  
  # add boxen to your shell config, at the end, eg.
  echo '[ -f /opt/boxen/env.sh ] && source /opt/boxen/env.sh'
  ```
  
  Open a new terminal, `boxen --env` to confirm.

  ## 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 in the `Puppetfile` when you can and make new modules 
  in the `modules/` directory when you can't. Then add `include $modulename` 
  for each new module in `manifests/site.pp` to include them. 
  One pattern that's very common is to create a module for your organization 
  (e.g., `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`](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`](modules/projects/README.md)

  directory for creating organization projects (i.e., 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.