Gatling does not run when vagrant is started

[Mrono]

Gatling does not run when vagrant is started

[rmahoney-bl]

I second this request. It would be great if, based on the configuration in the Vagrantfile, gatling-rsync-auto would simply begin in the background.

There are two advantages of this approach:

1. saves unnecessary step / terminal window
2. good for beginners, as this aspect of project synchronization is abstracted away

[smerrill]

I would also like to do this because I completely agree that just running it on start would be great, especially for beginners.

You can run vagrant gatling-rsync-auto via a plugin like vagrant-host-shell, and maybe via vagrant-triggers, but these options are suboptimal, since the vagrant up never registers as finishing, so you cannot do other Vagrant commands in other windows.

I took a look at this today to see if I could get a quick proof-of-concept working and I couldn't quite get it wired up in a couple hours.

I'll try to dig in a bit more over the New Years weekend to see if this is possible (and if the same issues with vagrant up never finishing persist if I get it working.)

[rmahoney-bl]

@smerrill thanks so much! This is just icing on the cake of an excellent plugin :)

[FractalizeR]

Well, that would be great. I also looking for a way to start it up automatically.

[jordanambra]

FWIW, I ended up doing something similar with a combo of vagrant-triggers and a shell script that runs with an & at the end of the command. It's not really enterprise-worthy, but I ended up with this. Save it as a file, make it executable, and run it in a block from vagrant-trigger.

#!/bin/bash

ACTION="$1"

if [[ "$ACTION" == "start" ]]
then
    echo "Starting file sync from host to Vagrant VM"
    vagrant rsync-auto &> /dev/null &
else
    echo "Stopping file sync with Vagrant VM"
    ps ax | grep rsync-auto | grep -v grep | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs kill
fi

[smerrill]

I have a proof-of-concept working for this feature pushed to RubyGems as 0.2.0.beta.1.

I'd love some help with testing it. To do so, you will need to opt in to automatic syncing by putting the following in your Vagrantfile.

if Vagrant.has_plugin?("vagrant-gatling-rsync")
  config.gatling.rsync_on_startup = true
end

Then, install the beta gem and start up an environment.

$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-gatling-rsync --plugin-version '0.2.0.beta.1'
$ vagrant up

It will automatically start syncing on a vagrant up or a vagrant reload.

I think that multi-box environments may not work properly if you start a specific machine, and I'm still considering if it should default to running the sync automatically; if so, I might only default it to true if there are synced folders defined.

[smerrill]

This is now in the 0.9.0 release. Please try it out.