I’m nearly complete with the next release of RailsLiveCD ( http://www.railslivecd.org ) and I’m asking for suggestions for programs
to include on the distribution. It’s got jEdit, RadRails, Subversion,
MySQL, PostgreSql, SQLite and all of the useful gems already installed.
What do the folks out there on Linux need for a good Rails environment?
I’ll incorporate the useful suggestions and release this week.
I know this is a silly question, but is it possible to install from the
Live CD? That would make it very cool… and would be a short (quick!)
answer to those who are thinking of deploying their own server that runs
Rails.
I know this is a silly question, but is it possible to install from the
Live CD?
Hi,
from the Rails Live CD website: "Rails Live CD allows you to install
directly to your hard drive and walks you through the process. No
compiling
or ./configure ./make ./make install dancing required. "
Seems like it works.
This distribution is aimed very specifically at developers. It is not
hardened for public web serving in any way. In fact I haven’t spent a
moment’s thought on security other than what comes built in the base
Linux distribution. I would not use this for serving a public site.
And it doesn’t include all of the production quality framework that you
might need – like Apache or lighttpd. I’ve only included the things a
developer would need.
Now since we’re talking about it, it seems like there’d be a nice place
for another LiveCD distribution. One that’s ready for VPS installation
or dedicated server installation. Maybe if I become independently
wealthy and end up with more spare time than I know what to do with…
Brian
those who are thinking of deploying their own server that runs
Rails.
Can you tack Mongrel and Apache onto it…? That would so totally rock
for people setting up servers. Maybe it could be a live DVD?
Tino B. [email protected] wrote: 2006/10/10, Mohit
Sindhwani [email protected]:
I know this is a silly question, but is it possible to install from the
Live CD?
Hi,
from the Rails Live CD website: "Rails Live CD allows you to install
directly to your hard drive and walks you through the process. No
compiling or ./configure ./make ./make install dancing required. "
Seems like it works.
Bye,
Tino
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Can you tack Mongrel and Apache onto it…? That would so totally rock
for people setting up servers. Maybe it could be a live DVD?
It already has Mongrel, but as I stated above I certainly wouldn’t
recommend making this a public facing server. I’ll see if I can fit
Apache. It’ll be tight. I could look at 2 versions – one that’s DVD
sized and one that’s CD sized. That’s a possibility.
from the Rails Live CD website: "Rails Live CD allows you to install
directly to your hard drive and walks you through the process. No
compiling or ./configure ./make ./make install dancing required. "
Seems like it works.
Bye,
Tino
My apologies… it was silly to ask without checking the site!
Cheers
Mohit.
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 02:49:49PM +0200, Brian K. wrote:
}
} I’m nearly complete with the next release of RailsLiveCD (
} http://www.railslivecd.org ) and I’m asking for suggestions for
programs
} to include on the distribution. It’s got jEdit, RadRails, Subversion,
} MySQL, PostgreSql, SQLite and all of the useful gems already
installed.
} What do the folks out there on Linux need for a good Rails
environment?
gvim, please
} I’ll incorporate the useful suggestions and release this week.
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 08:38:01PM +0200, Brian K. wrote:
} > gvim, please
}
} Very good… I’ll put it in. Does it require any config files or
other
} magic to make it useful?
I’m not sure how you’re putting together packages, but as long as you
are
using packages from some distro (e.g. Fedora or Debian) it should be
fine.
If you are compiling from source make sure to take everything it
installs
(i.e. don’t miss /usr/share/vim or whatnot).