Win-Ruby-Dev is a Windows 7 VM provisioned using Vagrant, Puppet and Chocolatey. The VM comes with Ruby installed, but can be re-configured for any software development on Windows.

• Vagrant
• VirtualBox, VMWareFusion or Parallels
• A Windows VM image from ModernIE

• Download the VM from ModernIE and boot it up

  • I used the IE11/Win7 VM and named it 'IE11 - Win7'

• Activate the Windows VM by running the following command:

  slmgr /ato
  

• Install Windows patches on the VM

• Install the latest VirtualBox Guest Additions

• Make sure the Windows VM network is set to "Work" (winrm whinges if this is not set)

• Configure winrm in the Windows client by running the following command in an Admin command shell:

  winrm quickconfig -q
  winrm set winrm/config/winrs @{MaxMemoryPerShellMB="512"}
  winrm set winrm/config @{MaxTimeoutms="1800000"}
  winrm set winrm/config/service @{AllowUnencrypted="true"}
  winrm set winrm/config/service/auth @{Basic="true"}
  sc config WinRM start= auto
  

• Package the VM using the Vagrant package command:

  vagrant package --base "IE11 - Win7" --output ie11_win7.box
  

• Add the box to vagrant by running:

  vagrant box add ie11_win7.box --name ie11_win7
  

• Update the VagrantFile, configuring the following:

  • Path to ie11_win7.box
  • VM provider, if different from VirtualBox
  • hostname, and other networking details (as required)
  • shared file paths

• Update the puppet/manifests/init.pp file

  • Add or remove any Chocolatey packages as necessary

vagrant up