Rails with Bitnami

Bitnami provides pre-packaged stacks for programming environments and popular applications.

Bitnami supports the Rubystack via:

1. Native Installer package for MacOS
2. VM Ware distributed install
   • worked for ESX. Also works on VMWare Fusion
3. AWS Image

RubyStack Native Installer

• Install ran easily.
• Management console for Apache, MySQL is installed.
• Web Server via WeBRICK running via rails was successful.
• Looks most promising
• OVERALL RATING: Good

RubyStack VMWare Distribution

• Was pleasantly surprised that it worked directly in VMWare Fusion without having to convert the ESX image
• Rails installation is based on Ubuntu stack.
  • Intended application is
• Challenges are in tranfering code/data to and from VM.
• Challenges are in starting the Rails web server
  • Intended use was to access rails apps via web server on Bridged IP.
• rails server failed to work on first try.
• OVERALL RATING: Average