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+# Personal Configuration
+
+One of the design choices of Boxen very early on was that we didn't want to
+dictate down to users "you can do this, but you can't do that".
+We do so as little as possible in the core, and we don't do it at all for
+per-user configurations.
+
+How? The personal manifest.
+
+Personal manifests live in `modules/people/manifests/<name>.pp`,
+where `<name>` is your GitHub username.
+A basic personal manifest might look like so:
+
+``` puppet
+class people::wfarr {
+  notify { 'hello world': }
+}
+```
+
+Now, each time `wfarr` runs Boxen it'll automatically print out "hello world"
+somewhere during the run.
+You can even run `boxen-my-config` to generate a default template for you
+and open it up in your editor.
+When you're done, you can simply run `boxen` and it'll include your changes
+in your personal manifest.
+**You should always keep your manifest committed and pushed to your repository**.
+Otherwise, auto-updates won't work!
+
+You can check out the [projects README](../modules/projects/README.md) for further examples.
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+# Using Boxen with Rails Projects
+
+Boxen is designed to work extremely well with Rails.
+Let's break down some of the basics:
+
+## Project Management
+
+We make a few assumptions about how you run Rails in development for ease and consistency:
+
+* You use a web server that listens on a socket
+* You use environment variables and something like [dotenv](https://github.com/bkeepers/dotenv) for managing secrets
+
+A typical Rails app that uses things like MySQL, Resque, and phantomjs
+might have a [project definition](../modules/projects/README.md) like so:
+
+``` puppet
+class projects::rails_app {
+  include phantomjs
+
+  boxen::project { 'rails_app':
+    source => 'mycompany/rails_app',
+    ruby   => '1.9.3',
+    mysql  => true,
+    redis  => true,
+    nginx  => true,
+  }
+}
+```
+
+This does a few things for you:
+
+* Clones `https://github.com/mycompany/rails_app.git` to `~/src/rails_app`
+* Ensures the default 1.9.3 version of Ruby is installed
+* Creates `~/src/rails_app/.ruby-version` with `1.9.3` in it
+* Ensures mysql is installed and running
+* Creates two mysql databases: `rails_app_test` and `rails_app_development`
+* Ensures redis is installed and running
+* Ensures nginx is installed and running
+* Copies the [template nginx config](../modules/projects/templates/shared/nginx.conf.erb) into the nginx config dir
+
+It won't necessarily do all of them in that order, but it will gaurantee
+that if they run successfully they're all done in a correct order.
+
+See the section below for some handy configuration tips on how to configure
+your app best to work with Boxen.
+
+## Configuration
+
+### MySQL
+
+``` yaml
+# config/database.yml
+
+<%
+  def boxen?; ENV['BOXEN_HOME']; end
+
+  socket = [
+    ENV["BOXEN_MYSQL_SOCKET"],
+    "/var/run/mysql5/mysqld.sock",
+    "/tmp/mysql.sock"
+  ].compact.detect { |f| File.exist? f }
+
+  port = ENV["BOXEN_MYSQL_PORT"] || "3306"
+%>
+
+development:
+  adapter: mysql2
+  database: rails_app_development
+  username: root
+  password:
+<% if socket %>
+  host: localhost
+  socket: <%= socket %>
+<% else %>
+  host: 127.0.0.1
+  port: <%= port %>
+<% end %>
+
+test:
+  adapter: mysql2
+  database: rails_app_test
+  username: root
+  password:
+<% if socket %>
+  host: localhost
+  socket: <%= socket %>
+<% else %>
+  host: 127.0.0.1
+  port: <%= port %>
+<% end %>
+```
+
+### PostgreSQL
+
+``` yaml
+# config/database.yml
+
+development:
+  adapter: postgresql
+  database: rails_app_development
+  encoding: unicode
+  port: <%= ENV["BOXEN_POSTGRESQL_PORT"] || 5432 %>
+  host: localhost
+
+test:
+  adapter: postgresql
+  database: rails_app_test
+  encoding: unicode
+  port: <%= ENV["BOXEN_POSTGRESQL_PORT"] || 5432 %>
+  host: localhost
+```
+
+### Redis
+
+``` ruby
+# config/initializers/redis.rb
+
+$redis = Redis.new(ENV['BOXEN_REDIS_URL'] || 'redis://localhost:6379/')
+```
+
+### Elasticsearch
+
+``` ruby
+# config/initializers/elasticsearch.rb
+
+Tire.configure do
+  url (ENV['BOXEN_ELASTICSEARCH_URL'] || 'http://localhost:9200/')
+end
+```
+
+### MongoDB
+
+``` yaml
+# config/mongo.yml
+
+development:
+  host: 127.0.0.1
+  port: <%= ENV['GH_MONGODB_PORT'] || 27017 %>
+  database: rails_app_development
+
+test:
+  host: 127.0.0.1
+  port: <%= ENV['GH_MONGODB_PORT'] || 27017 %>
+  database: rails_app_test
+```
+
+### Memcached
+
+``` ruby
+# config/initializers/memcached.rb
+
+$memcached = Dalli::Client.new(
+  ENV['BOXEN_MEMCACHED_URL'] || 'memcached://localhost:11211/'
+)
+```
+
+### Unicorn
+
+``` ruby
+# config/unicorn.rb
+
+if ENV['RACK_ENV'] == 'development'
+  worker_processes 1
+  listen "#{ENV['BOXEN_SOCKET_DIR']}/rails_app", :backlog => 1024
+  timeout 120
+end
+
+after_fork do |server, worker|
+  ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection if defined?(ActiveRecord)
+end
+```
+
+``` shell
+# script/server
+
+#!/bin/sh
+
+set -e
+
+cd $(dirname "$0")/..
+: ${RAILS_ENV:=development}
+: ${RACK_ENV:=development}
+
+export RAILS_ENV RACK_ENV
+
+bin/unicorn_rails -E "$RAILS_ENV" -c config/unicorn.rb
+```
+