At the most recent, and fantasticly free, RoR class that Mark Menard was running (and has run several times); it was brought to my attention that there is apparently no real good one-stop solution for the RoR community of newcomers to turn to when diving into RoR on Windows. It was pretty frustrating for everyone in the class that was sporting some nice flavor of Vista or 7, as they couldn’t just run one installer, or a batch script or anything like what can be found for BSD(Mac) and Linux. So I came home and made a partial solution, WinRoR.
As some of you may know, I like technology, so I tend to play around with it a lot. One of my favorite ‘playtime’ activities is to completely rebuild one of the many sites I administer; and rebuilding my blog is always the most fun.
You see, I usually can’t just settle for some simple blog platform. I always tend to find some far-reaching justification for needing low-level JDBC integration or some other minute feature that I never end up needing. This being the case, my blog has always been run on one flavor or another of CMS (Content Management System).