AQAqua_Geek·Feb 15, 2013
Looks more like Pivotal Workstation: https://github.com/pivotal/pivotal_workstation
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pivotal_workstation
A cookbook of recipes for an OSX workstation
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| Feb 2012 | 2012-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Mar 2012 | 2012-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2012-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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| Feb 2013 | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2013-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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5 sourcesThis is pretty cool. There are some other companies that have released similar tools in the past. I personally tried out:
* Thoughtbot's laptop script - http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/8700977975/2011-rubyists-g...
* Lunar Logic's Lunar Station - https://github.com/LunarLogicPolska/lunar-station
* Pivotal Labs's Pivotal Workstation - https://github.com/pivotal/pivotal_workstation
I personally liked Pivotal Workstation the best, as it had the best combination of robustness, pre-built recipes, and easy configurability. I'll be excited to take a look at Boxen the next time we bring someone into our team.
In Introducing BoxenOn linux it is even more easy, since most of the packages are in apt etc. Several recipes have a switch for use on our own servers and vm's: https://github.com/pivotal/pivotal_workstation/blob/master/r...
And there is nothing in the result that has anything to do with ruby, just chef and the recipes are in ruby. We use it for setting up our dev environments and servers for PHP websites. Although we use Capistrano for the actual site deployment and not Chef.
In Automating the setup of my perfect developer environment on OSX 10.8I help maintain the http://github.com/thoughtbot/laptop script that Giles mentioned. Happy to take feedback in Github Issues.
Some other good ones:
https://github.com/atmos/cinderella
https://github.com/pivotal/pivotal_workstation
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