* Road blocks and fixes:

##- When trying to do 'vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest' got the follownig nokogiri error. Vagrant v1.6.3 on OSX 10.8.5.

	Installing the 'vagrant-vbguest' plugin. This can take a few minutes...
	Building nokogiri using packaged libraries.
	Building libxml2-2.8.0 for nokogiri with the following patches applied:
		- 0001-Fix-parser-local-buffers-size-problems.patch
		...
		...
		...
	Bundler, the underlying system Vagrant uses to install plugins,
	reported an error. The error is shown below. These errors are usually
	caused by misconfigured plugin installations or transient network
	issues. The error from Bundler is:

	An error occurred while installing nokogiri (1.6.3.1), and Bundler cannot continue.
	Make sure that `gem install nokogiri -v '1.6.3.1'` succeeds before bundling.
		...
		...

- Workaround
$ export NOKOGIRI_USE_SYSTEM_LIBRARIES=true
$ vagrant plugin install vagrant vagrant-vbguest
$ vagrant plugin list (validate install)


##- Executing "rake db:create" you get the following errors
	PG::Error: ERROR:  new encoding (UTF8) is incompatible with the encoding of the template database (SQL_ASCII)
	HINT:  Use the same encoding as in the template database, or use template0 as template.
	: CREATE DATABASE "db/bikedb_development" ENCODING = 'utf8'

- Solution: follow the instructions here
http://journal.tianhao.info/2010/12/postgresql-change-default-encoding-of-new-databases-to-utf-8-optional/


## UPDATE - 2014.09.03 
Implemented a simple psql script that does the exactly as the url above. Do the following inside guest-OS

$ vagrant ssh

$ psql -d postgres -f /vagrant/etc/postgres/enable_utf8_template.sql
$ sudo -u postgres psql postgres

postgres=# \l

(The ENCODING should be UTF8 for 'template1' database)


Original resources for the Vagrantfile.
http://gorails.com/guides/using-vagrant-for-rails-development

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## TODOs ##
- Add the etc/enable_utf8_template.sql into Vagrant provision routine. One less task to for developer to execute.
- Create developement instructions (README.rdoc?), outlining the commands get the Vagrant/Bike-DB up and running.