Faster Rails Development with Vagrant

1 · Seth Vargo · Dec. 29, 2014, midnight
Vagrant is an excellent tool for Rails development - you do not need to worry about installing dependencies, damaging your local workstation, or disparity between different machines and operating systems. You can quickly scale the size and shape of the virtual machine on and as-needed basis, and in a worst-case scenario you can destroy everything and start from a blank slate. However, virtual machines often come with a bit of a performance cost. In this post, I will detail some of the tips and t...