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Build Podcast 39 - Vagrant

• vagrant package - Package up vagrantfile, box, etc to share with other devs

  - Resources to checkout

  • Pregenerate typical Vagrant builds
  • Vagrantbox.es
  • Slideshare intro to Vagrant

• Options for configuring Vagrant boxes: shell, puppet (used in this video), chef
• Puppet modules for rvm, and custom manifest for postgres
• Dave’s vagrant-example

• SQLfiddle seems like a nice tool for mocking up DBs
• GROUP_CONCAT( _ ) - interesting way of displaying data without tons of rows
• Powerful example using ActiveRecord and Sinatra with MySQL

Confident Code by Avdi Grimm

• Narrative Method Structure
  1. Gather input
  2. Perform work
  3. Deliver results
  4. Handle failure