Ruby on Rails Appliance

Ruby on Rails is an open-source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. Written in Ruby, Rails lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration. The result is a web framework that allows you to transition from idea to implementation in a very short period of time.

This appliance includes all the standard features in TurnKey Core, and on top of that:

• SSL support out of the box
• Webmin modules for configuring Apache2, and MySQL.
• Preconfigured example Rails application located at /var/www/railsapp
  
  
  • Apache2 configured as a load-balancing reverse proxy to a 3-node mongrel cluster.
  • MySQL databases setup for production, development and testing.
  • The Rails application secret and database password will be regenerated during installation (security).

• RubyGems package manager installed from upstream tarball
  
  
  • APT and RubyGems are both package management systems and may potentially conflict.
  • We recommend using RubyGems for managing Rails components (called gems), and APT for everything else.
  • Essential build packages (build-essentials) are included to aid in building gems.

• RubyGems components:
   
  • rails
  • mysql support
  • mongrel_cluster

Default credentials

• Webmin, SSH, and MySQL: username root, no password
  • user sets passwords during installation

See the Rails docs for further details.