dev_env Cookbook

A simple Cookbook to setup development environment. Here it takes care the usual procedures to setup a local development which are:

1. Install NIX packages.
2. Setup your projects.
   1. Git checkout the project.
   2. Run post bash commands to complete the setup.

Supported Platforms

Tested in Ubuntu.

Attributes

Main Attributes

• ["dev_env"]["user"] (String) = User to that will be assigned to own the wrap-ssh4git.sh file. This file is required to ignore the host checks when running git clone/checkout. Default value is nil.

• ["dev_env"]["packages"] (Array) = Array of Hash that contains list of NIX packages to be installed. package in below list will refer to the Hash object in this Array. Default value is nil.

• ["dev_env"]["apps"] (Array) = Array of Hash that contains list of project/app to be installed. app in below list will refer to the Hash object in this Array. Default value is nil.

Packages Attributes (package)

• package["name"] (String) = Name of NIX package you wish to install. Default value is nil.

Application Attributes (app)

• app["checkout"] (String) = Project checkout path. i.e. if /home/user/project is your checkout path, it will run git clone {app["git_repo"]} /home/user/project. Default value is nil.

• app["git_repo"] (String) = Git repository URL. Default value is nil.

• app["revision"] (String) = Git revision or branch to be used for checkout. Default value is nil.

• app["git_action"] (String) = Git action. Possible values are either checkout or sync. Default value is nil.

• app["timeout"] (Integer) = Timeout (in seconds) set for git execution. Default value is 600.

• app["retries"] (Integer) = Number of retries if the git execution fails. Default value is 5.

• app["git_ignore_failure"] (Boolean) = Indicates if you want to ignore the error if the git execution fails. Default value is false.

• app["user"] (String) = User that will be assigned for the project permission. Default value is nil.

• app["post_commands"] (String) = Bash command to run from the checkout path after the git execution completed. Default value is nil.

Usage

dev_env::pre_process

dev_env::pre_process recipe. This is to install NIX packages.

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[dev_env::pre_process]"
  ],
  "json": {
    dev_env: {
      packages: [
         { name: "curl" },
         { name: "apache2" },
      ]
    }
  }
}

dev_env::default

dev_env::default recipe. This is to setup projects.

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[dev_env::default]"
  ],
  "json": {
    dev_env: {
      apps: [
        {
          checkout_path: "/vagrant/home/projects/sample_app",
          git_repo: "git@github.com:railstutorial/sample_app.git",
          revision: "master",
          git_action: "checkout",
          user: "vagrant",
          post_commands: <<-EOH
            gem install bundler
            rake bundle install
            rake db:seed
          EOH
        },
        {
          ...
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

License and Authors

Author:: Taufek Johar (taufek@gmail.com)