How are Apple M1 users running rails-dev-box?

rubyonrails-core
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After taking a break from Rails to focus on a few other open source projects, I acquired an M1 MacBook and wanted to get rails-dev-box set up. However, VirtualBox doesn’t seem to run on arm64 hardware:

Screen Shot 2022-02-22 at 10.25.08 PM

I created a lightweight Docker setup so I can work on Rails (https://github.com/alipman88/rails-docker). So have a few other contributors - see conversation here: https://github.com/rails/rails-dev-box/issues/179.

Out of curiosity, how are other Apple M1 users running rails-dev-box these days? If there’s no drag-and-drop replacement for VirtualBox, perhaps it’s worth supporting a Docker-based alternative.

(Edit - Some other cool solutions I’ve found: https://github.com/yahonda/multipass-rails-dev-box, https://twitter.com/rafaelfranca/status/1473564391647891458)

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I use the docker based dev container that comes with the repo. I believe it’s to spin up a codespace but locally it opens a docker container. At least through VS Code.