TurnKey Ruby on Rails Live CD

TurnKey Ruby on Rails Live CD is an open source appliance designed from the ground up for users who want and easy and painless method for deploying dedicated servers with the Ruby on Rails web application framework.

It uses the stable and reliable base from the award winning Debian GNU/Linux operating system. Ruby on Rails is an open source web application framework that is highly optimized for sustainable productivity and programmer happiness.

The appliance comes with the RubyGems package manager, which can be used for managing Rails components (also known as gems), the APT package manager for installing, updating and removing software packages, as well as the build-essentials package for building gems.

It also features all of the upstream Ruby on Rails configuration with the mod_rails Apache module, pre-configured example Rails app deployed in /var/www/railsapp, as well as a capable MySQL database server for testing, development and production of web apps.

Additionally, this TurnKey edition features support for secure connections using SSL, Ruby Enterprise for improved memory and performance utilization, as well as various Webmin modules for configuring the Apache and MySQL servers.

The default username for the MySQL, Webmin, and SSH components is root. Users will be able to enter a new password for the root (system administrator) and the MySQL 'root' account during the first boot configuration process.

The TurnKey Ruby on Rails appliance is distributed as Live CD ISO images, which can be used to install the operating system on a local disk drive, as well as to just try it without installing anything on your computer.

In addition to the Live CDs, the appliance is also available for download as virtual images in the OpenStack, Xen, OVF, OpenNode and OpenVZ formats directly from the project's homepage (see above).

Don't forget to write down the IP addresses and ports of the active services, at the end of the installation process, which takes place in the Linux console (text-mode) and requires users to only partition the disk drive and install the bootloader.

What is new in this release:

• Install rbenv and ruby 2.3.3 from upstream source.
• Latest upstream version of Rails and gems.

What is new in version 13.0:

• Rails:
• Latest upstream version of Rails and gems.
• Replaced ruby-enterprise with stock ruby from Debian [#102].
• Bugfix: mysql needs to be running when generating controller.
• Bugfixes for package transitions [#58, #59].

What is new in version 11.3-lucid-x86:

• Installed security updates.
• Enabled etckeeper garbage collection by default.
• Upgraded to latest inithooks version (adhoc re-initialization via turnkey-init)
• VMWare build: run vmware-config-tools.pl on first boot
• Amazon EC2 EBS build: support resizing of root filesystem

What is new in version 11.1-lucid-x86:

• Replaced Ruby with Ruby Enterprise (performance).
• Set MySQL root password on firstboot (convenience, security).
• Force MySQL to use Unicode/UTF8.
• Set postfix MTA myhostname to localhost (bugfix).
• Included libreadline-dev so rails console works (bugfix).

What is new in version 2009.03-hardy-x86:

• upgraded ruby on rails gems - rails 2.3.2 - actionmailer 2.3.2 - actionpack 2.3.2 - activerecord 2.3.2 - activeresource 2.3.2 - rake 0.8.4 - fastthread 1.0.5
• bugfix: apache not proxying requests to the mongrel cluster (LP#348899)
• improved rails passwords and secrets generation mechanism (security) - database password is now randomly generated, and regenerated during installation - regenerate more secure secret key during installation
• major component versions mysql-server 5.0.51a-3ubuntu5.4 apache2 2.2.8-1ubuntu0.5 ruby 4.1 build-essential 11.3ubuntu1 rubygems 1.3.1 rails 2.3.2 rake 0.8.4 mongrel 1.1.5 mongrel_cluster 1.0.5

What is new in version 2009.02-hardy-x86:

• The example Rails application was reconfigured for ease of use.
• The distribution was rebuilt on top of TurnKey Core, the new common base for all software appliances, which is assembled from Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS packages.
• A bug in the daily auto-updates mechanism was fixed.
• Significant usability and security enhancements were made, including confconsole support for systems with multiple NICs, password-free login in demo mode, SSL support, database password setting during installation, no passwords in demo mode, the inclusion of many generically useful Webmin modules, and improved embedded documentation.

What is new in version 2008.12.10-hardy-x86:

• Updated to latest rails version - 2.2.2
• Regenerate rails secret during installation
• Regenerate ssh keys during installation
• Allow the user to set the mysql root password during installation
• Fixed manual partitioning support in the installer (#LP301251)
• Configuration console now saves the default route when configuring a static ip so the settings are not lost between system restarts (#LP303498)
• Includes iptables, webmin-firewall module and exemplary configuration