Ruby on Rails 3.2.8 instant installation to your Cloud with Jumpbox and Cloudcom ISP

Ruby on Rails is a software framework running on Ruby programming language and designed for developing web applications, web services and sites. Rails is famous for its simple patterns allowing to quickly transform ideas into reality and to greatly simplify the process of web applications development in comparison with many other web frameworks characterized by more complex approach.

Introduction

The JumpBox for Ruby On Rails helps to implement your applications deployment, but it enters into action only when you decide it's time for it. When it's not necessary, you are free to use your own tools of applications development and deployment.

What are the advantages of starting your Rails application with the help of JumpBox? You can fully focus on the process of applications development instead of spending time and effort on settling configuration difficulties that may arise in the progress of your Rails applications distribution to end user systems.

Thus it really doesn't matter whether your users run your application on Linux, Mac OS X or Windows as well as it is not even required to have MySQL or Ruby itself installed. Your application can effectively function within an absolutely free-running virtual machine instance so you users and you will avoid all headache related to configuration support.

These considerations about reduction of issues, associated with applications installing and configuring, seem convincing enough to us for offering you this option of using JumpBox for the deployment of your Rails applications. Now, your end user can confine themselves to installation of a Virtual Machine platform, for example, VMWare, Parallels or Xen as well as choose Cloud Computing solution like Amazon EC2. There will be no necessity in Ruby, Apache, MySQL and other software installation anymore!

How Does it Work?

This is quite simple yet effective technical solution since JumpBox for Ruby on Rails contains Ubuntu Linux environment that upon a start straightway hosts successfully operating MySQL, Apache, Ruby and Ruby On Rails environments. Practically no preparatory actions are required from you to be ready for installation and hosing your Rails application on JumpBox, and you need not to give up your favorite deployment methods either.

You can find out more information about deploying applications with the help of JumpBox for Ruby on Rails on our documentation site.