Rails - Oct 2005 - FreeMIS Open Source Project - packaging advice needed

Hi.  FreeMIS is about ready for a first release as a Ruby-on-Rails based
application.  

I''m beginning to realise that there''s a lot of stuff to be
installed before
you can get even a WEBrick served version up and running:
MySql, Ruby, ruby-mysql bindings, rubygems, rails, and a couple more gems -
raspell (which needs aspell) and tzinfo.

I''m trying to figure out the best way to ease this installation
process.  If
anyone has been through this process already and got any hints, I''d
really
appreciate it.

Cheers,

-- 
Robert Jones

You could pre load your required gem in the vendor dir for packaging.
this IMHO is a good thing to do if there are alot of dependancies.

Sam

On 10/16/05, Robert Jones
<jonesieboy-FhtRXb7CoQBt1OO0OYaSVA@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi.  FreeMIS is about ready for a first release as a Ruby-on-Rails based
> application.
>
> I''m beginning to realise that there''s a lot of stuff to
be installed before
> you can get even a WEBrick served version up and running:
> MySql, Ruby, ruby-mysql bindings, rubygems, rails, and a couple more gems -
> raspell (which needs aspell) and tzinfo.
>
> I''m trying to figure out the best way to ease this installation
process.  If
> anyone has been through this process already and got any hints,
I''d really
> appreciate it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Robert Jones
>
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Or you could hack it into InstantRails, or Locomotive, or package it as 
a rubyscript2exe...  Any of these would give the end user almost nothing 
to do but download and run.

-- 
Alex

Sam Mayes wrote:
> You could pre load your required gem in the vendor dir for packaging.
> this IMHO is a good thing to do if there are alot of dependancies.
> 
> Sam
> 
> On 10/16/05, Robert Jones
<jonesieboy-FhtRXb7CoQBt1OO0OYaSVA@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
>>Hi.  FreeMIS is about ready for a first release as a Ruby-on-Rails based
>>application.
>>
>>I''m beginning to realise that there''s a lot of stuff
to be installed before
>>you can get even a WEBrick served version up and running:
>>MySql, Ruby, ruby-mysql bindings, rubygems, rails, and a couple more
gems -
>>raspell (which needs aspell) and tzinfo.
>>
>>I''m trying to figure out the best way to ease this installation
process.  If
>>anyone has been through this process already and got any hints,
I''d really
>>appreciate it.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>--
>>Robert Jones
>>
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Alex Young wrote:
> Or you could hack it into InstantRails, or Locomotive, or package it as
> a rubyscript2exe...  Any of these would give the end user almost nothing
> to do but download and run.
> 
None of this means anything to me right now, but I''ll go away and
google
some.  Thanks for the pointers.

-- 
Robert Jones

Locomotive is a mac osx rails development "sandbox"
Instantrails is the same for windows. If you search the list there are
numerous references.

locomotive.sourceforge.net

They probably dont have all the gems you need. Like i suggested above.
id go the typo route and pute your required libs in the vendor dir

Sam

On 10/16/05, Robert Jones
<jonesieboy-FhtRXb7CoQBt1OO0OYaSVA@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Alex Young wrote:
>
> > Or you could hack it into InstantRails, or Locomotive, or package it
as
> > a rubyscript2exe...  Any of these would give the end user almost
nothing
> > to do but download and run.
> >
>
> None of this means anything to me right now, but I''ll go away and
google
> some.  Thanks for the pointers.
>
> --
> Robert Jones
>
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Sam Mayes wrote:
> Locomotive is a mac osx rails development "sandbox"
> Instantrails is the same for windows. If you search the list there are
> numerous references.
> 
> locomotive.sourceforge.net
> 
> They probably dont have all the gems you need. Like i suggested above.
> id go the typo route and pute your required libs in the vendor dir
> 
> Sam
Thanks Sam. I''ll look into all the options, though yours sounds better
for a
Linux user like myself :)

-- 
Robert Jones

Robert,

My suggestion would be more "cross platform" and pretty much allow
someone to setup the app with minimum config.

Sam

On 10/17/05, Robert Jones
<jonesieboy-FhtRXb7CoQBt1OO0OYaSVA@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Sam Mayes wrote:
>
> > Locomotive is a mac osx rails development "sandbox"
> > Instantrails is the same for windows. If you search the list there are
> > numerous references.
> >
> > locomotive.sourceforge.net
> >
> > They probably dont have all the gems you need. Like i suggested above.
> > id go the typo route and pute your required libs in the vendor dir
> >
> > Sam
>
> Thanks Sam. I''ll look into all the options, though yours sounds
better for a
> Linux user like myself :)
>
> --
> Robert Jones
>
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