If you have done any kind of Puppet manifests / Chef cookbooks development using Vagrant chances are that you’ve been staring at your screen waiting for the machine to be provisioned for really long periods of time, specially when you need to destroy the VM and start over. A while ago I came across this gist which solves part of the issue by caching downloaded packages on the host machine and sharing them among similar VM instances. Read more

UPDATE: This post is likely to be out of date, please see this post for more It’s been nearly 2 months since I open sourced my “not so pretty” initial spike and announced on Vagrant’s mailing list that I was going to work on this. By that time, Vagrant 1.1 wasn’t even released yet and it was a long way to get where it is now. Almost two weeks after “releasing” the spike, Vagrant 1. Read more

One of the things I missed the most after going 100% on Vagrant was the ability to preview Rails apps sent mails on my browser. I got used to the awesome letter_opener gem which depends on launchy to fire up a new browser window with the email preview instead of sending. As launchy on its own wouldn’t be able to open up a browser window on the host machine from the guest box, I started to look around for alternatives and wasn’t able to find something else that worked for me. Read more

Last year I heard a lot about Vagrant and even though I had the chance to play with it, performance was always an issue that prevented me from doing 100% of my development work from a VM. By december, when my laptop started acting weird (and eventually died) I decided that my next computer would have as much cores and RAM that I could afford. I looked at a few different options and ended up getting a Dell Inspiron 15R SE with a Core I7 that has 4 cores and 8 threads and 8 Gb RAM. Read more

Here we go again, this is another attempt to talk about my experiences on being a software developer and whatever else might cross my mind. Here I will speak either English or Portuguese which is my native language.