Rails Appliance

Rails development environment with lighttpd,fcgi,mysql,svn,ruby,rails, and capistrano

Description

Forum http://www.railsappliance.org

offical home page

FAQ:
1) Why we built this Virtual Machine
we wanted to test our rails application on lighttpd/fcgi and apache/scgi and other combinations before we take our site into production

2) how did you use it
initially developed on VMware server/workstation
once applicance was created and functional, we configured it individually for each developer or as a common shared staging server,

we used capistrano for deployment

we worked on Rails appliance console using ssh via putty, the benefit being we could use cut and paste instead of typing, we are developers and not sysadmins :)

3) for which site
http://www.broadspire.com , we launched our site on 19th May, with Apache and SCGI

4) what are the components implemented
we were impressed with railsmachine video and wanted to have our version which we use ourself and offer to our clients.

we have implemented lighttpd, mysql,ssh, svn, ruby, gems, rails,

we have tried capistrano, but you need to experiment with your network and confirm your success

5) what if you win some prize
though possibilities are remote, there are too many smart people out there, would love to buy our first laptops

6) what is the License
it is Ruby / Rails style licensing and since it is derived from Ubuntu and uses VMware product for running and development

7) how can I add a feature to the appliance
you would require Vmware Workstation or Server for doing major works, but with vmplayer itself you can do simple additions with Sudo

8) where can I get upto date information on this project
I am not sure if it is a project onto itself, it is a outcome of one our research activity, but you can get more info on http://senthilnayagam.com/home/show/railsappliance

9) Where to host my site developed on your appliance
My company offers excellent hosting solutions, you can visit it at http://www.broadspire.com

10) why does it take 4Gb
we planned to test upto 100 installations/projects with capistrano with frozen rails

100 x 4mb per frozen project x 5 revisions per project = 2000mb approx 2GB

11) I want to ask a question,
you can contact via project page

offical home page

small correction

add the following DNS entries in your hosts file
c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
IP rforum.tmp

it should be rforum.test instead of rforum.tmp, probably you would have found it by now if you had seen lighttpd.conf

thank you, claudio pacchiega , for correcting me,

Last updated: 06/18/2006

Operating system: ubuntu 5.10

Applications installed:
Lighttpd FCGI Mysql 4 Ruby 1.8 Rails 1.1 SSH SVN

VMware Tools installed: No

Size: 387 MB
Torrent available: Yes
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Primary account
Username: root
Password: root1

Submitted by: senthilnayagam

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