Vagrant repo location

[moore3071]

According to the documentation the repo should be in /home/vagrant/cwdg-website. When booted the vagrant box syncs the repo to /vagrant due to the vagrantfile line 13-16:

  if `uname`.include? "Linux"
    config.vm.synced_folder '.', '/vagrant', type: 'rsync'
  elsif `uname`.include? "Darwin"
    config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/home/vagrant/cwdg-website"
  end

My guess is that uname is running on the host machine, but I'll analyze both cases.

• If uname is being run on the vm vagrant makes, then why is there a case for Mac (Darwin)?
• If not then
  • aren't we missing the case of other OSs especially Windows which is the reason the vagrant box exists?
  • Why do we sync to two different locations depending on host OS?

[J3RN]

I have an assortment of commentary on this. Here goes:

1. The vagrant box is scarcely useful as this is no longer a Rails app. The only reason I can think of to use it is if Ruby is borked or hard to install on your system. On second thought, Windows. Regardless, Vagrant is notoriously hard to use. I would push for a Docker container over this, though I believe Docker is equally difficult to utilize, simply because of their good PR. I can take a swipe at that.
2. The Vagantfile, and thus, uname runs on the host machine.
3. I have no idea why the syncing locations are different, or why Windows is ignored. At some point, someone probably updated one location and forgot the other. type: rsync was important at one point because the default method of syncing didn't work well with Linux. I imagine that has been fixed in the intervening years. TL;DR: We can probably replace this whole thing with a single line.

[moore3071]

Okay, my PR should fix J3RN's point three. As far as Docker vs Vagrant, I think we need to have further conversation on the two. Neither was difficult to set up on my system, but I'm obviously not running Windows.