SeedCode Starter

Starting point for working on SeedCode projects. This includes SeedCode's dev environment.

Core Dev Software

Download and install the following applications

VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Vagrant: https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html

SourceTree: https://www.sourcetreeapp.com

MonoSnap (for screencasts): https://www.monosnap.com

Configuration and cleanup using the terminal

Launch Terminal app:

Create a global git ignore file:

git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global
touch ~/.gitignore_global
nano ~/.gitignore_global

Then paste the following:

## Begin ignore list ##
# OS generated files #
######################
.DS_Store
.DS_Store?
._*
.Spotlight-V100
.Trashes
ehthumbs.db
Thumbs.db

# Vagrant generated files #
######################
.vagrant
## End ignore list ##

press "ctl" + "x" to exit, then “y” to save and "enter" to confirm.

Add user email and name to git config file:

nano ~/.gitconfig

Fill in name and email. When done "ctrl" + "x" to exit, then “y” to save and "enter" to confirm.

Once you have the project repo URL from Kiln add the repo to SourceTree and pull the project:

Click "New Repository"

Then "Clone from URL"

Paste in the repo URL and choose a folder on your computer to clone the repo to

Then click "Clone"

Navigate back to the Terminal App and excecute the following commands:

Vagrant plugins:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater
vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

How to start vagrant:

Navigate to your project repo, then navigate to the vagrant folder within that. Then run the command vagrant up...

cd yourproject/vagrant
vagrant up

This may take several minutes as it will download the base image and install everything. This will only take this long the first time.

If you need to activate SSL for the development environment run the following commands from the context of the vagrant folder replace the email and domain placeholders with your specific data...

vagrant ssh
cd /vagrant
grunt ssl:YourEmail:YourDomain

Once complete you can exit out of your vagrant ssh session by executing the command

exit

Vagrant can be stopped by typing

vagrant halt

To start vagrant again (and the dev environment) simply navigate to the vagrant folder in the terminal and type

vagrant up