JumpBox for Ruby on Rails Deployment

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The JumpBox for Ruby on Rails is a simple yet powerful deployment system for rails applications.

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The JumpBox for Ruby On Rails serves as a deployment system for your Rails applications. We understand that developers prefer to use their own tools for developing and deploying their applications, and so our JumpBox for Ruby on Rails politely remains out of your way until you've decided that it's time to deploy your application.

What is the value of deploying your Rails application with a JumpBox appliance? Quite simply, it allows you as the developer to concentrate on your development rather than having to accommodate the potentially infinite number of configuration possibilities that one might otherwise encounter in attempting to distribute Rails applications to end user systems.

As such, you needn't worry about the fact that your users will be hosting your application on a Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows computer. They won't be required to install MySQL to support your application, and for that matter, you needn't care about whether or not they even have Ruby installed... They won't need it because your application will operate within a fully self-contained virtual machine instance.

We feel that the proposition of significantly reducing installation and configuration support issues will be compelling enough of a reason to consider deploying your Rails application with the JumpBox for Ruby on Rails. Now, instead of being required to install Ruby, MySQL, Apache, and a potentially vast array of dependencies, your end user need only install a Virtual Machine platform such as VMWare, Parallels, or Xen. If they so desire, they can also easily host your application in a Cloud Computing environment such as Amazon EC2.

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JumpBox provides very simple to use virtual appliances based around Open Source software. Any JumpBox will run on VMWare as well as Parallels Desktop and Server, Microsoft Virtual PC, Microsoft Virtual Server, Virtual Iron and Xen Open Source. With a JumpBox Open Plus subscription you can also run on Amazon EC2 and the JumpBox Backup System allows you to easily move your installation from a local install to an install anywhere else.

A JumpBox requires one quick step of configuration via a web browser with no need to touch a command line. Each JumpBox also includes a simple web based management interface that includes the JumpBox Backup System. The JumpBox Backup System allows you to export the state of the JumpBox to NFS, Windows File Sharing or Amazon S3 (This provides a really easy offsite backup).

When you log into the application use the user "admin" with the password you provide during initial setup. The distribution also contains a README.txt file that provides a little more detail about usage.

JumpBox appliances are updated on a regular basis with the latest operating system and application fixes.

See RELEASE-NOTES.txt in the download for more detail on recent changes and a list of known issues with this release.

This JumpBox is part of JumpBox Open a growing collection of Virtual Appliances for Open Source software. Subscribing to JumpBox Open provides a great toolset to help you quickly evaluate, develop and deploy Open Source software.

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