healthcare.gov on Ubuntu / VirtualBox

What:  healthcare.gov website

On: Ubuntu / VirtualBox

Why: Why not?

 The Doing:  A few easy steps 

Get the source

https://github.com/Conservatory/healthcare.gov-2013-10-01
Follow the build instructions in the README.md file.

Setup the environment

VirtualBox

VirtualBox 4.1.23
VirtualBox 4.2.18

VirtualBox 4.3.0
Don't forget to install the guest additions.

Ubuntu

* Ubuntu 10.10 (EOL)
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
 ? Ubuntu 13.10

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
This version was just right.  All the Gems and Ruby on Rails installed without a peep.  This was left out of the readme instructions

sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev

Now wait a little while after

jekyll serve

Then in the web browser go to this URL:
http://localhost:4000

I wasn't getting the web site but then I noticed that I had typed 4400 instead of 4000.

Enjoy!






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* Ubuntu 10.10 (EOL)

 gem install bundler

 will keep complaining about zlib being incompatible or whatnot.  Just move on to a more recent or at least an LTS version of Ubuntu.  No need to suffer inst. hell.

 ? Ubuntu 13.10 Didn't try this yet.