Overview

By capslogiTue, 01/19/2010 - 21:28

Get a FREE powerful Ruby on Rails ready-to-use development platform up in no time !


What ?

A totally free linux (Mint based) VirtualBox image, fully configured, with :

  • Ruby 1.8.7, RubyGem, Rails 2.3.4 and dependencies, several useful gems
  • Mongrel & Thin Rails servers
  • MySQL 5 (with phpMyAdmin)
  • MongoDB 1.4.3 (with gem mongo 1.0.3 & mongo_mapper 0.8.2)
  • Git 1.6.3.3
  • Subversion 1.5
  • Capistrano 2.5.18
  • ImageMagick, Xapian
  • Netbeans 6.8
  • A lot more, see the complete list of features here


Why ?

  • Don't spend hours installing and configuring libs and tools, just launch it and be productive immediately
  • Simply paste it on all the computers of your team to get a complete unified development environment in no time
  • Run the exactly same development environment on MS Windows, Mac OS, Linux etc...
  • Run it on your MS Windows desktop just like any other application, and get rid of the Windows Ruby VM and libraries compiling drawbacks
  • Use the same computer for multiple purposes just by switching between the virtualbox images
  • Don't be affraid to break your environment by trying some libs or tools...back to fresh install in two clics
  • Just one single file to save for complete backup of your entire development platform
  • Extend/modify it to fit your needs. It's completely open and connected ("apt-get install" and "gem install" work like a charm)


How ?

  1. Download & Install VirtualBox, it's free, quick and really easy. Instructions can be found here
  2. Download the Virtual Rails image
  3. Install it within VirtualBox. It takes only 5 min, see instructions here
  4. Run Virtual Rails...you're done ! see here to take a tour


Who ?

We're Capslog-Informatique, a small French IT Service firm based on Bordeaux.
We help our clients to successfully complete their Java-J2EE or Ruby on Rails projets, and build inovatives web-sites for small business compagnies.