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 title: How to Force Installation of Vagrant Plugins
 date: 2014-09-22 12:00:00
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Vagrant [0] is an amazing tool for local development, especially in
the case of distributed teams. It allows for complete parity
between every team member’s development environment without forcing
anyone to follow a complicated list of environment setup steps.
Vagrant’s plugin support is also excellent, as it provides for
further automating the environment setup, such as automatically
adding host names, running additional commands on the host machine,
etc.

Unfortunately, the simplicity that Vagrant provides is reduced as
plugins are added, as each team member will then have to install
and possibly configure those plugins. Luckily, because the
`Vagrantfile` is (essentially) just a Ruby script, we can detect
missing plugins, and force their installation before any other
actions are run in the Vagrant file.

To automatically detect and install Vagrant plugins for your team
members, add the following code right above the
`Vagrant.configure()` section of your `Vagrantfile`:

```ruby
unless Vagrant.has_plugin?("<PluginName>")
	system('vagrant plugin install <PluginName>')
	raise("Plugin installed. Run command again.");
end
```

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[0]: https://www.vagrantup.com/
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