Setting Up the development environment

In order to get your machine setup to start contributing to mangrove - this is what you need to do:

• Install chef client
• Clone the chef repository from mangrove
• Run chef solo

Details

We are detailing out the above steps for Ubuntu 10.10. For any other OS - please look through the chef documentation given here

• Install ruby:

  $ sudo apt-get install ruby-full

• Install rubygems:

  $ cd /tmp
  $ wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/70696/rubygems-1.3.7.tgz
  $ tar zxf rubygems-1.3.7.tgz
  $ cd rubygems-1.3.7
  $ sudo ruby setup.rb
  
  You can verify your installation was successful with
  
  $ gem -v
  1.3.7

• Install chef client:

  $ sudo gem install chef
  
  You can verify your installation was successful with
  
  $ chef-client -v
  Chef: 0.9.0

• Install git:

  $sudo apt-get install git

• Clone the chef repository:

  $git://github.com/mangroveorg/chef-repo.git

• Make sure your system is updated and upgraded before you run the chef script:

  $sudo apt-get update
  $sudo apt-get upgrade

• Create a user mangrover and give him sudo rights:

  $useradd mangrover
  $passwd mangrover
  $sudo usermod -aG sudo mangrover

• Run chef solo(as mangrover):

  $cd chef-repo
  $sudo chef-solo -c chef-solo/solo.rb -j chef-solo/node.json