[driverdan]

I use a fairly simple bash script to initialize my rails vagrant instances. Total of 34 lines including comments and didn't require learning any new config tools.

While I'd favor using proper config management this was a much better use of my time.

[joshdance]

Those 'quick n dirty scripts' will work for you (and work well) but when others need to rely on them it gets messy. At my company we have 50 developers and everyone relies on "Jeff's script". No one really touches it because no one really gets it and Jeff might move across the country soon. :(