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SugarCRM

Internal Applications Development Setup

This guide assumes you know how to install unix programs and configure things like PHP. Google and Stack Overflow are awesome if you have questions.

First steps on the sauce

Install Homebrew. It's going to require things like XCode from the Apple Store, I'm not going to repeat the instructions here, but get it running. You'll also need the following services available on the host, since they're too slow to run inside the VM:

brew install elasticsearch
brew install mysql

You should also get started with the scrubbed datadumps for SugarInternal and Gatekeeper:

mysqladmin create si7 create gatekeeper
curl maple/db/tiny | bzcat | mysql si7
curl maple/db/gk   | bzcat | mysql gatekeeper

Virtual boxes with Vagrant

Vagrant will setup and manage our virtual machines, while Chef will provision them according to a set of configurable rules. The rules in chef are called recipes, and they're organized into packages called cookbooks. We'll use a variety of community cookbooks as well as define our own application specific ones.

Vagrant can deploy to a multitude of providers, but for our purposes we'll use Virtual Box since it's free, easy to install, and well supported.

$ brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
$ brew cask install vagrant virtualbox chefdk
Cask

Cask is an extension to Homebrew which handles Applications and Package installers, like Chrome, Hipchat, etc. It installs them in the normal brew locations and then manages symlinks to your Applications folder.

Vagrant plugins

Berkshelf is the part of Chef that manages all the dependencies between the various cookbooks. Ermagherd, berks! Hostmanager is nice because it will automatically manage our /etc/hosts for us as we bring or or tear down boxes.

$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-berkshelf
$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager
$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-omnibus

You can optionally install the Sahara plugin, which allows you to rollback your virtual machine; useful for things like testing module installs since it saves a lot of time 'resetting' your dev environment, messing up git clean, and losing your config files, etc.

$ vagrant plugin install sahara
$ vagrant help sandbox

I strongly recommend the following tools; you'll find your productivity dramatically increasing if you learn to love them. A properly setup ag (silver searcher) blows the pants off of grep or ack. Boris is an interactive PHP shell. Tig is an ncurses shell for Git, no more paging git log to less. Hub is a wrapper around Git that makes things like cloning and pull-requests so much easier, straight from the command line.

$ brew install php54 git tig hub boris gistit the_silver_searcher jq
Getting your ssh keys forwarded

If you want to do any git operations on the VM, you want it to use your SSH key's from your host operating system, so you don't have to worry about copying id_rsa files around.

List the keys that ssh-agent will handle

$ ssh-add -L

If it responds with "The agent has no identities.", then you need to add your key (-K tells it to use the OS X Keychain):

$ ssh add -K ~/.ssh/id_rsa # Or whichever key you have uploaded to github.com

Now, when you're on the virtual machine, you can make sure it's working by:

$ ssh -T [email protected]
Hi jhoffmann! You've successfully authenticated, but GitHub does not provide shell access.
Kicking it off

Before we start up our VM, we should talk a little about directory structure. Everone has a preference, my personals are ~/src for public repos or code, and ~/sugar for any work related repositories. This shouldn't matter, as long as the folders are all organized in the following method.

   <path>/
         /si              # git clone sugarcrm/sugarinternal
         /si_uploads      # Empty directory for compatability with production SI
         /bacon           # This repository
         /stock           # Download your package of choice from http://honey-b/release_archive/ent/

         /gatekeeper      # If these exist, the appropriate vhost entries will be created
         /internal        # If you create an empty directory, the code will be cloned from GitHub for you

The reason for this, is when you run the Vagrant commands within the bacon folder, it's going to mount .. as /var/www/htdocs within your virtual machine and setup Apache virtual hosts for each application we have defined.

Now that we're all set, we should be able to start Vagrant. It will download the OS image, configure the virtual machine, setup Chef inside it, configure the networking, install and configure all of our packages like PHP and the web services, and a few minutes later ... we can login!

$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh
Verify the install using stock

Download a released version of SugarCRM from either the store or honey-b, unzip it in your Downloads folder, and then move it to the stock folder in your code root (i.e. you should have ~/<path>/stock/install.php).

Things to note

  • The hostmanager plugin will edit your /etc/hosts to add all of the *.dev.vm entries, so our Apache vhosts can bind to them. If you have cruft in there, you might have conflicts, but I took steps to avoid that.
  • The virtual machine will be stored inside the .vagrant folder inside this repo, and you get a bunch of stuff installed into ~/.berkshelf, just be aware in case like me, you backup your home folder to Dropbox and don't want SCM repos stored there.
  • This process is designed to create volatile virtual machines. Try not to make any changes inside it that you wan't to keep, like installing new packages or making sweeping changes to configuration files. Fork this repo, update the cookbooks, and submit a pull request.
  • I've installed the elasticsearch browser, it can be reached by going to http://dev.vm:9200/_plugin/head/

Customizing Your Environment

Create a cookbooks/dev-applications/attributes/local.rb file, and add attributes to the override node. These files are excluded from git, so make sure you backup any copies. For example:

override['dev']['database'] = {
  'host' => 'my database ip',
  'username' => 'username',
  'password' => 'password'
}

override['stock']['config']['setup_license_key'] = 'copied from sugarinternal'

You will either need to vagrant provision or vagrant destroy;vagrant up your sandbox after making changes.

Additional reading

Cleanup

If you need to wipe out everything and start over, here's a list of places to start.

$ vagrant destroy --force
$ rm -rf .vagrant
$ rm -rf ~/.berkshelf
$ rm -rf ~/.vagrant.d         # You'll need to re-install the plugins listed above
$ rm -rf ~/Library/VirtualBox
$ rm -rf ~/VirtualBox\ VMs