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.
2. Create a new repository on GitHub as your user for your Boxen. (eg. wfarr/my-boxen). Make sure it is a private repository!

3. 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
   

4. 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.

5. 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. These modules are all tested to be compatible with Boxen. Use the Puppetfile to pull them in dependencies automatically whenever boxen is run. You'll have to make sure your "node" (Puppet's term for your laptop, basically) includes or requires them. You can do this by either modifying manifests/site.pp for each module, or we would generally recommend you create a module for your organization (eg. modules/github) and create an environment class in that. Then you need only adjust manifests/site.pp by doing include github::environment or what-have-you for your organization.

For organization projects (read: repositories that people will be working in), please see the documentation in the projects module template we provide.

For per-user configuration that doesn't need to be applied globally to everyone, please see the documentation in the people module template we provide.

Binary packages

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