# RubyStation 0.1.5 (gives you the power of localhost!)

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**Created:** [November 5, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubystation-0-1-5-gives-you-the-power-of-localhost/178499 "2009-11-05T14:46:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yutaka\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/51bf81/32.png) [@Yutaka\_H](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Yutaka_H)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2009, 2:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rubystation-0-1-5-gives-you-the-power-of-localhost/178499/1 "2009-11-05T14:46:10Z")

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RubyStation 0.1.5 has been relesed.

RubyStation is an installer/launcher of browser-GUI desktop  
applications.

- Demo and screenshot: [http://yhara.github.com/ruby-station/](http://yhara.github.com/ruby-station/)

== What is ‘browser-GUI desktop application’ ?

If you are familiar with Rails, the easiest way to write a  
desktop application is using the browser as GUI. How?

1. Write an application with Rails (or Sinatra, Merb, Ramaze…)
2. Compress the files into a zip file.
3. Users download it, unpack it and do ‘./script/server’.
4. The application runs in the browser.

Why can’t we call it a desktop application? 🙂

With RubyStation, you can:

- install applications, which are distributed as RubyGems
- start an application by clicking the link  
(you don’t need to remember each port number of the applications)
- write an application for RubyStation (it’s as easy as creating a  
gem)

More information: [http://yhara.github.com/ruby-station/](http://yhara.github.com/ruby-station/)

== Changes

- version 0.1.5 (2009/11/05)
  - first release