Ruby on Rails Appliance

• BitNamy RubyStack Appliance  - Free   Ruby   on   Rails  appliance based   on  Suse Linux. It includes Apache, MySQL and a   Ruby   on   Rails  envir onment. The site also includes native installers for Windows and   OS  X as well as Amaz on   Machine  Images for cloud deployment.

• Ruby on Rails Appliance  - An open source appliance based   on  Ubuntu, includes a web administrati on  interface,   SSL  support and an example   Rails  site out of the box.

 

Turnkey Rails appliance (linked above) working onWindows so I wrote up a guide to doing just that: Get started building web apps with your own Ruby on Rails virtual development server.

The main things I was missing were

• Network c onfigurati on  knowledge for a free   virtualizati on  product. I ended up using   VirtualBox and the default NAT setup c onfused me for far too l ong. I now understand how to do it using NAT+port forwarding or using bridging.
• sqlite3  is not included in Turnkey   Rails  but it's assumed in the   Rails  intros I have been reading. I added instructi ons   on  how to install it.
• No familiar Windowsy   WYSIWYG  editor available in the c onsole- only Turnkey Rails. I added   diakonos  to my guide.