I've used vagrant for a big rails 3 app with a lot of dependencies and services, i.e., solr, a redis backed delayed_job queue, etc.- stuff that would have diffi

I've used vagrant for a big rails 3 app with a lot of dependencies and services, i.e., solr, a redis backed delayed_job queue, etc.- stuff that would have difficult or impossible to manage on a mac. The vm environment was also as close as possible to the production env, with the same os version, etc. It also greatly streamlined onboarding of new devs. The dev environment setup was a couple of hours instead of a day or two.