lagartoflojo

TODO

• Include basic Gemfile
• Include Apache config
• Specify available tasks
• How to setup the students' PCs

Introduction

When giving a course based on Ruby on Rails, you will have many students coming from different backgrounds, using different Operating Systems, so you want their experience to be as smooth as possible. Deploying applications to the class server can be a pain in other frameworks, but in Rails, using Capistrano and Bundler, it is actually quite easy. This deploy configuration file for Capistrano intends to be as compatible with different OSs, as easy to use, and as complete as possible.

dhh

# autoload concerns
module YourApp
  class Application < Rails::Application
    config.autoload_paths += %W(
      #{config.root}/app/controllers/concerns
      #{config.root}/app/models/concerns
    )
  end
end

jpmckinney

# blog post: http://blog.slashpoundbang.com/post/2613268281/changing-from-tz-database-identifiers-to-rails-friendly
{
  "Australia/Adelaide"             => "Adelaide",
  "Australia/Broken_Hill"          => "Adelaide",
  "America/Anchorage"              => "Alaska",
  "America/Juneau"                 => "Alaska",
  "America/Nome"                   => "Alaska",
  "America/Yakutat"                => "Alaska",
  "Pacific/Gambier"                => "Alaska",
  "Asia/Almaty"                    => "Almaty",