Rails - Aug 2005 - FLPR.org - The Most Excellent Open Source Web Platform

I just finished the last of four articles on setting up a basic
machine for developing and hosting Rails apps.

FLPR is what I call the Most Excellent Open Source Web Platform:
  - FreeBSD
  - lighttpd
  - PostgreSQL
  - Ruby on Rails

While the articles as a whole are geared towards setting up FLPR, much
of the info can be used on any platform (should definitely ease the
pain of configuring lighttpd for many people).

I''ll continue to post various tips on configuring your FLPR machine,
talk about tools to make your life easier, and in general make it
easier and more fun to develop quality web applications.

Hope you enjoy.

Pat Maddox
http://www.flpr.org

This is exacly my own favourite platform. :))

On 8/25/05, Pat Maddox <pergesu-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> I just finished the last of four articles on setting up a basic
> machine for developing and hosting Rails apps.
> 
> FLPR is what I call the Most Excellent Open Source Web Platform:
>   - FreeBSD
>   - lighttpd
>   - PostgreSQL
>   - Ruby on Rails
> 
> While the articles as a whole are geared towards setting up FLPR, much
> of the info can be used on any platform (should definitely ease the
> pain of configuring lighttpd for many people).
> 
> I''ll continue to post various tips on configuring your FLPR
machine,
> talk about tools to make your life easier, and in general make it
> easier and more fun to develop quality web applications.
> 
> Hope you enjoy.
> 
> Pat Maddox
> http://www.flpr.org
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Hi,

    I''m a Ruby and Rails newbie working my way through the book and my 
first app in parallel. In the book, (page 116) to be exact, some SQL 
code is written to populate the development database with some sample 
product data. I was surprised that a fixture wasn''t used to do this.

    Additionally, in my app, I''ve got a bunch of data about game pieces
stored in a table so it can be queried in a variety of way. The data 
cannot be modified by the user, but it can evolve as part of the 
development process between releases. I was thinking that a fixture 
would be a good way to manage and version this static information, but I 
couldn''t find any references to loading fixtures outside into the 
development or production environment.

    Is there a reason fixtures are limited to the testing environment? 
It shouldn''t be too difficult to add this to the rakefile would it?

Thanks,
Steve