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Vagrant Setup

This tutorial guides you through creating your first Vagrant project.

We start with a generic Ubuntu VM, and use the Chef provisioning tool to:

install packages for vim, git
create user accounts, as specified in included JSON config files
install specified user dotfiles (.bashrc, .vimrc, etc) from a git repository

Afterwards, we'll see how easy it is to package our newly provisioned VM

Originally published in June 2008

When hiring Ruby on Rails programmers, knowing the right questions to ask during an interview was a real challenge for me at first. In 30 minutes or less, it's difficult to get a solid read on a candidate's skill set without looking at code they've previously written. And in the corporate/enterprise world, I often don't have access to their previous work.

To ensure we hired competent ruby developers at my last job, I created a list of 15 ruby questions -- a ruby measuring stick if you will -- to select the cream of the crop that walked through our doors.

What to expect

Candidates will typically give you a range of responses based on their experience and personality. So it's up to you to decide the correctness of their answer.

	require "bundler/capistrano"

	server "96.126.100.112", :web, :app, :db, primary: true

	set :application, "capteste"
	set :user, "deployer"
	set :deploy_to, "/home/#{user}/apps/#{application}"
	set :deploy_via, :remote_cache
	set :use_sudo, false
	set :port, "3030"

	#! /usr/bin/env python2
	# Requires: PIL, colormath
	#
	# Improved algorithm now automatically crops the image and uses much
	# better color matching

	from PIL import Image, ImageChops
	from colormath.color_objects import RGBColor
	import argparse
	import math

	require 'benchmark'
	require 'pry'

	class Fizzbuzz
	def initialize(number)
	@number = number
	end

	def self.count(number)
	count = new(number)

	class Agent < ActiveRecord::Base
	validates :first_name, :last_name, :email, presence: true
	validates :email, uniqueness: true
	has_many :missions
	scope :on_assignment, -> { Agent.joins(:missions).where(missions: { status: 'active' }) }
	scope :not_on_assignment, -> { where.not(id: Agent.on_assignment.pluck(:id)) }

	def name
	"#{first_name} #{last_name}"
	end

	inputs = %w[
	CollectionSelectInput
	DateTimeInput
	FileInput
	GroupedCollectionSelectInput
	NumericInput
	PasswordInput
	RangeInput
	StringInput
	TextInput

	http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6086120/helper-fields-for-not-working

	http://www.sitepoint.com/complex-rails-forms-with-nested-attributes/

	%ng-form(name="circleEditForm")
	%label Circle Name:
	%input(type="text" name="circleName" \|
	ng-minlength= 3 \|
	ng-model="circleModal.name" \|
	ng-maxlength= 8 \|
	maxlength= 8 \|
	required \|
	ng-class="{error: !circleEditForm.circleName.$valid}" )

	class Car < ActiveRecord::Base
	attr_accessible :make, :car_model, :colour

	def lots_of_model_code
	# etc, etc
	end
	end