Run on a nonstandard port, usually default port + 1000 or 10000.
Install with a custom Boxen homebrew formula.
Suffix the Homebrew package's version, starting with -boxen1.
Run as a launchd service in the com.boxen namespace, e.g., com.boxen.dnsmasq.
Store config, data, and log files in `$BOXEN_HOME/{config,data,log}. This will normally require customization of a service's Homebrew formula.

Sometimes it's not possible to follow these rules, but try hard.

Contributing

Use the OS X system Ruby (1.8.7). Run script/tests often. Open PR's.

Managing Boxen's Puppet Modules

There are roughly nine million puppet modules under the Boxen GitHub organization. To clone them all, run script/sync-puppet. This script will make sure every boxen/puppet-* repo is cloned under the ./puppet, which is ignored by Git.

Because it uses the GitHub API, script/sync-puppet requires the GITHUB_LOGIN and GITHUB_PASSWORD environment variables to be set. If you don't want to provide them every time, you can set them in .env.local.rb, which is also ignored by Git. For example, your .env.local.rb might look like this:

ENV["GITHUB_LOGIN"]    = "jbarnette"
ENV["GITHUB_PASSWORD"] = "adventures"