I''m actually working on a Sandbox at the moment, similar to what James
Duncan Davidson talked about in his blog[1]. Unfortunately it''s not
ready for prime time, and I''m about to go away for a couple of weeks,
but I''m hoping it will iron out a lot of the wrinkles for beginners
(binary dependencies are another gotcha), as well as providing a
sturdy repeatable environment for production.
At the moment it just handles modules (make/configure style, Ruby
packages and Gems), handles the dependencies and builds the lot into
the sandbox. It uses a Makefile at the moment but the next thing I do
will be to port it to Rake and have a bootstrap script to install Ruby
and run Rake. Then it should be a snap to provide configurations for
various applications, have them all automatically use the sandbox
environment and thus a generated config. I guess a lot of people would
also want the ability to generate the configs standalone.
I''m interested in feedback on what people would ideally like in a
system like this, and whether it would be useful for a lot of people.
I''ll do it anyway, because it will be useful for me, but how much time
I spend polishing it depends on demand.
Cheers,
Colin
[1]: http://blog.x180.net/2005/07/rails_sandbox_d.html
On 10/08/05, Michael Schoen
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wrote:> What do folks think about having rails generate a sample lighttpd.conf
> (for Lighttpd) and httpd.conf (for Apache) in the config directory?
>
> Might that help new folks get over the hump of running Rails under fcgi?
>
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