If you’re using Ansible to provision/manage your infrastructure it only makes sense to utilize the same setup locally instead of having to go through all of the same configuration again. It eliminates a bunch of the “works on my machine” issues, it documents the entire process, makes it easier for new developers to get up to speed, etc.

When jumping back and forth between various Rails applications and projects it’s nice to have some tools to check on the state of the application.

I’ve been using Sunrise as my default calendar for a few months and I can’t imagine it any other way.