Setting up Vagrant, Librarian-Chef and Vagrant aws plugins on OSX Mavericks.

I have a new macbook pro. I want to install vagrant, chef and librarian, with the vagrant-aws plugins. I’m working on OSX Mavericks, and I want to get as clean an install as possible. For the most part I am also using the fish shell. This is what I’ve just run through over the last 20 minutes.

• Install command line tools from the terminal
  $ xcode-select --install

Next we are going to install homebrew, with homebrew we will install rvm and with rvm we will install ruby. The goal is to have a ruby avilable at /usr/local/bin and to avoid using the system provided ruby, which is at /usr/bin.

• install homebrew
  $ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

• update homebrew
  $ brew doctor $ brew update

$ brew doctor will do a healthcheck. As a result of running this I was reminded to re-order my $PATH to point to \usr\local\bin over ‘\usr\bin’.

• Install prequisites for rvm
  $ brew install autoconf automake libtool libyaml readline libksba openssl

• Install rvm
$ curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

• Install a ruby
  $ rvm install ruby-2.0.0-p247
$ which ruby will now return something like /Users/ian/.rvm/rubies/ruby-2.0.0-p247/bin/ruby

• I use the fish shell, and for some reason after intalling ruby with rvm the order of my $PATH got rearranged, so I rest \usr\local\bin to the front with
  $ set PATH /usr/local/bin $PATH

• OK, now we can try to install librarian with $ gem install librarian-chef

• This installs 31 gems on my system - fun! I immediatly tested this in a repo with a working Cheffile, for a long running project that is ongoing withing eLife. $ librarian-chef install

This worked, and downloaded 21 chef repositories, as expected. I’m feeling pretty good at this point.

• Let’s also get vagrant. I downloaded the latest version of vagrant - version 1.3.5, and installed it via dmg. After this $ which vagrant returns \usr\bin\vagrant, and $ vagrant -v returns Vagrant 1.3.5.

• Let’s install the aws-plugin for vagrant. We do this with
  $ vagrant plugin install vagrant-aws

That gets me Installed the plugin 'vagrant-aws (0.4.0)'!, yay!!. We still need to install chef, and check that vagrant up works on the project.