{"id":2240,"date":"2016-08-05T16:51:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T22:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2016-08-07T15:06:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-07T21:06:15","slug":"getting-started-with-sharetribe-development-vagrant-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2240","title":{"rendered":"Getting started with sharetribe development–vagrant style"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have recently spent a fair bit of time working with Sharetribe, an open source, MIT licensed marketplace platform<\/a> that also powers a hosted solution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

First, let me say that the software is the least significant piece of a marketplace (like AirBnB). \u00a0The least significant! (Check out the Sharetribe Academy<\/a> for some great content about the other steps.) \u00a0<\/p>\n

But it is still a necessary component. \u00a0If you can get by with the hosted solution to prove out your idea, I suggest you do so–$100\/month is a lot cheaper than hours of software development. There may come a time when you want to customize the sharetribe interface beyond what javascript injection can do. \u00a0If this is the case, you need a developer. \u00a0And that developer needs an environment. \u00a0That’s what this post is really about.<\/p>\n

The sharetribe github readme explains the installation process pretty well, but I find it tedious, so I created a\u00a0quick start vagrant VM. This VM has a sharetribe installation ready to go. \u00a0I use vagrant 1.6.3 and Virtualbox 5–google around for instructions on how to get those up and running. The guest VM is Ubuntu 14.04. This VM uses rvm to manage ruby versions, but I couldn’t be bothered with nvm. It will install sharetribe 5.8.0 and all needed components.<\/p>\n

Assuming you have vagrant and virtual box installed, download the Vagrant file<\/a> and put it in the directory where you want to work. Edit it and change any options you’d like. The options I changed were the port forwarding (I set it to 3003<\/code>), networking options, and the amount of memory used (I allocate 4GB).<\/p>\n

Then run vagrant box add http:\/\/www.mooreds.com\/sharetribe\/sharetribe-base-mooreds.box --name sharetribe-base-mooreds<\/code> to download the file. It’s downloading a large file from my (small) server, so expect it to take a while (hours).<\/p>\n

Then run vagrant init<\/code>. <\/p>\n

When you can login (password is vagrant<\/code> if you use vagrant putty<\/a> or you can use vagrant ssh<\/code>) you can go to the sharetribe directory and do the following:<\/p>\n