From: Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown@...>
Date: 2007-08-09T23:52:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby app on a CD

On 8/9/07, khaines@enigo.com <khaines@enigo.com> wrote:
> > Have you run into any issues with rails on a cd (which is read-only)?
> > Obviously you couldn't make changes to the database, but will it work fine in
> > other respects for a read-only application?
> >
> > Ed, Instant Rails has good potential for this project. though Apache and
> > MySQL is a bit heavyweight for what's needed. It would have to be transparent
> > to the user, though. Do you know if it can be driven completely from a
> > script? i.e. it says "Instant Rails will detect that it is being started from
> > a new directory and ask if you want to have it update the paths in the all of
> > the configuration files... Just say yes."
>
> In my case, I was not using Rails.
>
> I didn't use Apache, either.  I kept it simple in that regard and just
> used webrick.  For something like this, webrick is more than fast enough,
> and that eliminated a whole class of dependencies and configuration.
>
> they also did install the db on their hard drive, because they wanted to
> be able to have the full functionality to edit things.  MySQL has a
> zipfile version that was ideal for this, though.  I just gave them a very
> simple installation file that they unzipped, and the .bat that started
> everything up took care of launching all of the pieces for them.

For me, using camping + sqlite works great. you can get everything to
run from a directory with a little effort, and the database is just a
file.

-greg