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Fri, 16 Dec 2005

Ruby on Rails Quickstart Bundles

If you're on OSX and wanting to experiment with Rails, then check out the Locomotive project on SourceForge. (Thanks to Charlie Squires for sending me the link!)

If you're a Windows or Linux user, then check out Instant Rails

In both cases the teams have bundled up Ruby, Rails, a database, and everything else you need to run Rails, verified the versions all work together, and bundled it all into a single package.

From the Locomotive web site:

Locomotive is a flexible one-click solution to Ruby on Rails development for Mac OS X 10.3+. In one self-contained application, it gives you a fully functional Rails development platform including: (but not limited to)

• The framework: Ruby on Rails
• The favored webserver: lighttpd with FastCGI
• An embedded database: SQLite

From the Instant Rails website:

Instant Rails is a one-stop Rails runtime solution containing Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured and ready to run. No installer, you simply drop it into the directory of your choice and run it. It does not modify your system environment.

This is the best way I know for a Rails novice to get up and running. I haven't used the Locomotive project but I have tried Instant Rails and it works great.

Why post about Rails again? Because your brain needs exercise. Learn something new over the holidays. :)

Enjoy!

Jared

posted at: 20:54 | path: | permanent link to this entry

Found- One Digital Camera. Your Pictures are on Flickr

This is cool. Here's the link

From the Flickr post:

we found a digital camera. if you know any of the folks in these pictures, have them email me with the following info for the return of their very nice camera: tell me where & when I found it/where it was lost (city and particular circumstance), the size of the memory card, make & model and maybe identify some of the other folks on the card (not pictured) and i'll be happy to ship it home. I just feel bad for whoever lost their family photos. Thanks! Camera was found in USA, New York state.

Jared

posted at: 07:17 | path: | permanent link to this entry