Confirm that by running box list: $ vagrant box list This indicates that Vagrant will use a default operating system image it hosts called base, which you don't have yet. This creates a Vagrantfile with the default configuration information written in Ruby syntax.

`` for more information on using Vagrant. The comments in the Vagrantfile as well as documentation on Ready to `vagrant up` your first virtual environment! Please read You can put your directory wherever you like I prefer to use a folder under my user account: $ mkdir -p ~/Development/Rails_appĪ `Vagrantfile` has been placed in this directory. After everything is installed, open your terminal and create a new directory to work in. If you're on Fedora and prefer using the command line, there is an excellent Fedora tutorial, and there's a similarly helpful tutorial for Windows using Chocolatey.

An editing environment, like Atom or Notepad++.

Before you begin, install the following (if you haven't already): This tutorial works through an example application for a simple Hello World page inside a Ruby on Rails (Rails for short) web app. Check out Vagrant's documentation to learn how to use a different provider for this tutorial.

This tutorial will use VirtualBox as that environment manager, though Hyper-V and Docker also work by default. Vagrant is essentially a wrapper to allow for repeatable virtual machine management, but it does not run VMs itself. Vagrantfiles are called Vagrantfiles because the actual literal filename for the file is Vagrantfile (casing does not matter unless your file system is running in a strict case sensitive mode).' 'The primary function of the Vagrantfile is to describe the type of machine required for a project, and how to configure and provision these machines. Vagrant works with a standard format for documenting an environment, called a Vagrantfile. With an easy-to-use workflow and focus on automation, Vagrant lowers development environment setup time, increases production parity, and makes the 'works on my machine' excuse a relic of the past.' Vagrant describes itself as 'a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow.

Vagrant with virtualbox