ROROX, a RoR package for XAMPP

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The version 0.3 of ROROX is released. ( 8.7M ). ROROX is a package providing Ruby, Rails plus dependencies and other gems, rails_scgi, and Apache SCGI module, to be installed over a XAMPP (XAMPP = an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl) installation. The aim is to get close to a "one-click" installer for Linux (a la Locomotive or Instant Rails).

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Ruby on Rails: no surprises, please

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The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) has published a paper by David Plans Casal, Director of Research at Luminas entitled "Internet Applications Advanced Software Development for Web Applications (PDF file: 23 pages)". In this paper David tells how the Web has moved far from a simple text and image distribution system to modern sophisticated Web applications.The introduction of Web frameworks somewhat helped by providing coding skeletons upon which systems could be built. The paper has outlined two such frameworks, Apache Cocoon and Ruby On Rails, which, it is argued, offer considerable advantages to developers.

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