Rails

Rails or Ruby on Rails is a web application framework.

= Installation = Install :

Setup
Point your browser @ http://0.0.0.0:3000 and your are now riding rails via WEBrick. This is only for testing, not production. WEBrick could probably be used for production if it were behind nginx or an accelerator proxy such as varnish.

Configuration
Rails is not eselect aware, this might come in handy to resolving some issues, but be aware that bundle install will blast things away.

passenger via apache
Emerge passenger.

add -D PASSENGER to apache's config

Passenger needs apache to relax the rules a little bit. You need to edit and insert relaxed settings before  .

backup your original apache vhost:

you need to drop in the passenger vhost file for apache:

point your browser to http://0.0.0.0 or http://127.0.0.1 or http://localhost and your riding rails via passenger now.

= external resources = tutorials
 * http://guides.rubyonrails.org/
 * http://planetrubyonrails.com/
 * http://api.rubyonrails.org/
 * http://rubyonrails.org/screencasts
 * http://railstutorial.org
 * http://railscasts.com/