# DamageControl

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/damagecontrol/99043>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [January 30, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/damagecontrol/99043 "2006-01-30T21:46:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![runman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@runman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/runman)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/damagecontrol/99043/1 "2006-01-30T21:46:54Z")

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Is there anyone on this list running DamageControl on a  
Debian or a Windows system ? If so would you care to share  
how you accomplished this (details … it’s all in the  
details) ? While I will still work through the problems I  
am encountering (it’s a great learning experience) I would  
still like to have a working instance of DamageControl to  
use in the meantime.

I am currently following the instructions in the INSTALL  
file in the DC download, but it seems to conflict with some  
instructions on a site that I have found.

Thanks,  
Greg

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**Author:** ![runman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@runman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/runman)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/damagecontrol/99043/2 "2006-01-31T03:10:40Z")

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I am using DC version 0.5.0.1404 on Windows 2003 server. There was a  
start  
of a rewrite for 0.6, and I tried that but the code seemed to be very  
broken, and questions on the mailing list went unanswered. 0.6 is very  
different from 0.5.

0.5 is Ok to work with, but it has a lot of quirks when setting up a  
project. Once it’s running, it does an ok job.

I did add the ambient orb support that the UI hints at, and I wrote  
about  
that here:  
[http://blog.craz8.com/articles/2005/10/26/ambient-orb-and-damage-control](http://blog.craz8.com/articles/2005/10/26/ambient-orb-and-damage-control)

I also wrote about how to have a Rails test environment on the DC server  
without having a Development environment to copy the database schema  
from:  
[http://blog.craz8.com/articles/2005/10/25/rails-application-testing-in-damag](http://blog.craz8.com/articles/2005/10/25/rails-application-testing-in-damag)  
e-control

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**Author:** ![runman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/8edcca/32.png) [@runman](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/runman)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/damagecontrol/99043/3 "2006-04-05T19:51:57Z")

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Tom F. wrote:

> I am using DC version 0.5.0.1404 on Windows 2003 server. There was a  
> start  
> of a rewrite for 0.6, and I tried that but the code seemed to be very  
> broken, and questions on the mailing list went unanswered. 0.6 is very  
> different from 0.5.
> 
> 0.5 is Ok to work with, but it has a lot of quirks when setting up a  
> project. Once it’s running, it does an ok job.
> 
> I did add the ambient orb support that the UI hints at, and I wrote  
> about  
> that here:  
> [http://blog.craz8.com/articles/2005/10/26/ambient-orb-and-damage-control](http://blog.craz8.com/articles/2005/10/26/ambient-orb-and-damage-control)
> 
> I also wrote about how to have a Rails test environment on the DC server  
> without having a Development environment to copy the database schema  
> from:  
> [http://blog.craz8.com/articles/2005/10/25/rails-application-testing-in-damag](http://blog.craz8.com/articles/2005/10/25/rails-application-testing-in-damag)  
> e-control

How did you install that? The only place I can find it is on a GEM,  
which doesn’t seem complete (and the DamageControl site warns against  
using the GEM for this reason).

This is annoying since I did have it installed on my home PC.

Thanks