A script to setup a clean Vagrant box for rails development

vagrant_setup.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

#
# execute this script with:
# wget -qO- https://gist.github.com/alanstevens/5296018/raw/vagrant_setup.sh|bash
#

echo "You will be prompted for your password by sudo."

#
# clear any previous sudo permission
#
sudo -k

#
# run inside sudo
#
sudo bash <<SCRIPT

#
# add heroku repository to apt
#
echo "deb http://toolbelt.heroku.com/ubuntu ./" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/heroku.list

#
# install heroku's release key for package verification
#
wget -O- https://toolbelt.heroku.com/apt/release.key | apt-key add -

aptitude update

#
# grub throws a model during safe-upgrade, this is a precaution
#
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive apt-get -y -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confdef" -o Dpkg::Options::="--force-confold" dist-upgrade

#
# install some basic packages
#
aptitude -y install coreutils curl libpq-dev postgresql-server-dev-X.Y postgresql heroku-toolbelt nodejs libv8-dev build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`

#
# In case the kernal was ugraded during a dist-upgrade, we rebuild guest additions
#
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxadd setup

#
# remove downloaded packages
#
apt-get clean

SCRIPT

# To update your base box, use these commands
# vagrant halt; vagrant package; vagrant box add new_basebox package.box