A Vagrant box based on Ubuntu precise32, configured for Django development according to Torchbox's adopted practices. Things preinstalled beyond the base precise32 box include:
- postgresql 9.1 (with locale fixed to create databases as UTF-8)
- virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper
- dependencies for PIL, the Python Imaging Library
- a pip download cache pre-seeded with Django and various other common packages
- git (sometimes required for pip dependencies that aren't in PyPI)
- Node.js, CoffeeScript and LESS
We use this box in conjunction with https://github.com/torchbox/vagrant-django-template as the initial template for our Django projects. vagrant-django-template will successfully build from a vanilla precise32 base box, but using vagrant-django-base instead will skip some of the time-consuming initial setup.
To generate the .box file:
./build.sh
To install locally:
vagrant box add django-base-v2.1 django-base-v2.1.box