# VM for Noobs

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vm-for-noobs/131683>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 12, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vm-for-noobs/131683 "2008-03-12T14:23:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 2:23pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vm-for-noobs/131683/1 "2008-03-12T14:23:43Z")

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Hello All,

I’m giving a couple presentations/demos on an introduction to the RoR  
framework. As I have been working on my presentation I thought it  
would be nice to either have a VM that people could follow along with  
me, or download and play around with on their own with out risk.

I had heard sometime back about the possibility of someone building a  
Live Linux distro that would have everything set up for developing a  
RoR site. But have not been able to find any information since the  
rumor.

My questions to the group are these:

If there is a live or VM project out there, where can I find any  
information on this?

What features/packages/gems would you like to see installed for a  
beginner?

I wish I could afford to just give each of them a copy of the Agile  
book. But I’m just a college student. (LOL)

So any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,  
-Chris

 If your in the Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN area on April 5th. Check out the 2008 Spring Code Camp. See http://www.twincitiescodecamp.com for registration information. It's free and I'm going to be giving my intro talk there too.