4. Meet BitRock
• Founded in 2003, privately held with offices in Seville, Spain and
San Francisco, USA
• Develops packaging, installation and update tools to provide a
complete Open Source Application Deployment solution
• Clients span the globe, and include Fortune 100 corporations,
governments, educational institutions, and the leading open
source companies
• Recent honors include Red Herring 100 Winner and Red Herring
Open Source 20 Winner
OPEN SOURCE 20
5. www. BitRock.com
• BitRock makes open source software easier to use by
providing a complete automated solution for Open
Source Application Deployment.
• Makes it fun
• brings it to people
6. Ruby
• “Ruby is a dynamic, objectoriented programming
language. It combines syntax inspired by Perl with
Smalltalklike objectoriented features, and also shares
some features with Python, Lisp, Dylan, and CLU. Its
official implementation is free software written in C.”
• Beautiful
• FUN !!!
8. Ruby on Rails
• “web application framework that aims to increase the
speed and ease with which databasedriven web sites
can be created and offers skeleton code frameworks
(scaffolding) from the outset. Often shortened to Rails,
or RoR, Ruby on Rails is an open source project
written in the Ruby programming language and
applications using the Rails framework are developed
using the ModelViewController design pattern”
• Beautifull
• FUN !!!
9. It is my story
• We decided to start with RoR
• Lovely !
• me as a developer, I need development environment
• My team needs development environment – it would
be cool if both are the same
• My graphics designer needs it as well
• They have different operating systems, different
requirements (GUI,text mode,...) and skills
• I want to use several environments on one machine