On Railcar: an isolated Rails environment

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On Railcar: an isolated Rails environment

On Railcar: an isolated Rails environment Ever since launching Railcar , I’ve been getting a lot of questions about why I’m building it, how I’m approaching things, how people can help, and so on, so I thought I’d take a few minutes and share some things with you. Why? The main reason is that the Kickstarter pointed to a real need that I didn’t realize still existed. I’ve become so separated from what it means to be “new to Rails” that I didn’t realize it was still a problem to get a Rails setup going on your machine, but thinking back on it, it was and still is a bit of a nutty process. It’s not just the installation of stuff, but the whole environment around the application. How do you start it up? Why can’t I just stick it in my Apache root and let it go? Why do I have to configure a database file? Migrations? What is all this? I forgot how much cognitive friction reall...

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@jeroeningen » 16 Apr '12, 11am
#railcar, nice initiative: [link] Sadly, it looks to be that it doesn't run on linux
@denis_fabien » 11 Apr '12, 7am
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Projeto interessante aqui [link] e aqui [link]
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@zombidev » 10 Apr '12, 4pm
Railscar shows that we don't need to spend $50K to build a Rails installer. [link]
@pjdavis » 10 Apr '12, 4pm
I just donated to Railcar ( [link] ), and you should too.
@apacala » 10 Apr '12, 7am
[link] how did he manage to write it without $20k funding!?
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