Forewarning: This post is more of a rambling and future reference to myself.
I've been working on a project in Ruby on Rails for a little while and a few days ago I made the mistake of upgrading to OS X Mavericks with the thoughts "What's the worst that could happen?" running through my mind.
Well for some reason the PG gem really doesn't like my computer anymore. Long story short I decided that I would fire up a Ubuntu development environment on Vagrant and well, it has been a difficult ride.
To keep it short. First time around I had many issues.
Vagrant was making rails take forever to download. The solution to this can be found here:
https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/issues/513
TL;DR: Add this to your vagrant file and restart it.
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnsproxy1", "off"]
vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--natdnshostresolver1", "off"]
end
Make sure you rbenv rehash after installing both Ruby and Rails.
After mucking up with Nokogiri and PG dependancies I hit a wall with folder permissions and Bundler.
I decided to start again following this guide:
http://gorails.com/setup/ubuntu/13.10
This went much smoother, installing all dependences beforehand. Note that Adding a new Repository to Ubuntu didn't work without first running
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
But besides that everything worked fine. Bundle install worked with no issues which makes me very happy!
My final issue was creating and migrating the database via rake.
PG::InvalidParameterValue: ERROR: encoding "UTF8" does not match locale "en_US"
DETAIL: The chosen LC_CTYPE setting requires encoding "LATIN1".
This was a real pain and seemed to be a default for PostgresSQL conflicting with Rails.
To fix I logged into psql with sudo su postgres -c psql and followed the advise posted by tokhi on Stackoverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16736891/pgerror-error-new-encoding-utf8-is-incompatible
Or alternatively this post: https://marcinraczkowski.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/fixing-incorrect-postgresql-locale/
Now it all works and hopefully this will resolve any future issues I have with rails deployments!
