diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5d0dbeb..4159be7 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ bundled_gems/
 vendor/
 examples/db/*.db
 examples/config/database.yml
+.vagrant
diff --git a/Vagrantfile b/Vagrantfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..db14930
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Vagrantfile
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
+  config.vm.box = "ubuntu-1104-server-amd64"
+  config.vm.box_url = "http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7490647/talifun-ubuntu-11.04-server-amd64.box"
+  config.vm.provision :shell, :path => "setup_env.sh"
+end
diff --git a/setup_env.sh b/setup_env.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a05dc96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup_env.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -x
+set -e
+
+
+# add the 10gen repo
+sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10
+sudo echo "deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
+
+sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt-get install --yes couchdb mysql-server mongodb-10gen curl
+
+# setup rvm
+if [ ! -d "$HOME/.rvm"]
+  bash -s stable < <(curl -s https://raw.github.com/wayneeseguin/rvm/master/binscripts/rvm-installer )
+  echo '[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # Load RVM function' >> ~/.bash_profile
+  source ~/.bash_profile
+  rvm install ruby-1.8.7-p248
+fi