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I just saw in other post that Alon suggested TKLPatching an instalation of Ruby Enterprise. I just took the first part of my Gitorious TKLPatch and converted it to a TKLPatch that can be used as base for installing other Ruby projects. This patch is for turnkey-core-beta-lucid-x86.
This TKLPatch will convert turnkey-core-beta-lucid-x86 image to a Gitorious appliance setup to work in a private network. I'm not a git user yet but I'm learning quick (to be a cool rails dev). That said, it's important for me that if any community member has experience with git, please give this appliance a test drive and feel free to post bugs / recommendations.