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We have recently upgraded all of our PHP stacks to support native Linux 64bit installations (without the need to install compatibility libraries). We have just done the same for our popular Ruby on Rails stack, RubyStack
This Stack ships the following components:

• Ruby 1.8.7-p334
• Rails 2.3.11
• Apache 2.2.17
• MySQL 5.1.56
• NGinx 1.0.2
• Passenger 3.0.7
• PHP 5.3.6 (optional)
• and other dependencies

We are happy to announce a new release of BitNami RubyStack. This version includes significant improvements:

• Updated Ruby to the latest stable version 1.8.7-p334. If you want to use Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3 you can download the 2.1-1-dev version of RubyStack.
• Updated Rails to 2.3.11.
• Updated Nginx to 1.0.2
• Phusion Passenger 3.0.7 with Apache and Nginx modules for Linux
• Updated Git to 1.7.4
• Updated PHP 5.3.6 for BitNami modules which requires PHP
• Updated phpMyAdmin to 3.3.10
• Updated gems to latest stable versions

Yesterday, JRuby 1.6.0 was officially released and today you can deploy in minutes with BitNami. A major new feature in JRuby 1.6 is the implementation of theRuby 1.9.2 language. However by default JRuby is configured to work on Ruby 1.8.7 mode. Here is how you can use the Ruby 1.9.2 mode in your BitNami JRubyStack installation.

1. Open the BitNami JRubyStack console.

./jrubyconsole

We are happy to announce a new release of BitNami JRubyStack. The most important improvement is that the updated stack includes the latest stable version of JRuby, 1.5.6 which is the java implementation of Ruby 1.8.7. It also includes recent versions of Tomcat, Subversion and SQLite together with updated gems. You can view the full list of changes in the changelog. Enjoy developing with JRuby in your machine, in a virtual appliance or in the cloud. Just go to http://bitnami.org/stack/jrubystack and use your preferred environment. … more

We would like to send a special thanks to BitNami user Christian Riley for putting together a great demo of how to launch phpBB to EC2 using a BitNami CloudFormation template. As you’ll see in the demo video, he is able to launch phpBB to EC2 in just a few minutes using CloudFormation. In addition to phpBB, all other PHP and Ruby on Rails-based BitNami-packaged applications are now available as CloudFormation templates. Enjoy! … more

Amazon has recently released AWS CloudFormation , a new service that helps you describe a ‘stack’ of cloud resources and bring them up as a single unit. A CloudFormation stack can include among other resources load balancers, databases, EBS volumes and of course EC2 instances. A stack definition is called a template and can contain configuration information to be passed to the various resources being provisioned. At BitNami, we are pretty excited about CloudFormation and want to make it easy for you to incorporate BitNami stacks to your deployments. We have now CloudFormation templates for all PHP and Ruby on … more

After several months in private beta, we’re excited to announce that BitNami Cloud Hosting is now available! BitNami Cloud Hosting simplifies the process of deploying and managing open source and other applications in the cloud.

• One-click Application Deployment: Launch servers with one or more applications or development stacks from the BitNami library in one click. Currently available applications include: SugarCRM, Alfresco, JasperServer, Drupal, Wordpress and many others. You can view a list at: http://bitnami.org/cloud/apps
• Automatic Backups and One Click Server Restores: BitNami Cloud Hosting offers automated backups that can … more

We’re happy to announce the release of updated BitNami Stacks for SugarCRM, Drupal, Redmine and Alfresco. As with all BitNami Stacks, these new releases are freely available as native installers, for installation on desktops or servers, virtual appliances, which can be run in VMWare and Virtualbox, and as cloud images for Amazon EC2 (AMIs) and GoGrid (GSIs). If you’re not familiar with these applications, here is a quick summary:

• SugarCRM: SugarCRM is a flexible customer relationship management solution for companies of all sizes. SugarCRM can easily be customized and integrated with … more

A couple of weeks ago, we released an updated Redmine Stack for Redmine 1.0. If you’re not familiar with Redmine, it is a flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database. It includes support for multiple projects, role based access control, issue tracking, a Gantt chart, calendar, wikis, forums, time tracking and more. The 1.0 release of Redmine is a major milestone and we’d like to congratulate and thank everyone in the Redmine project who worked on it. It includes a long list of improvements, such as:

• Subtasks: … more

What if your own in-house applications were as easy to deploy as BitNami stacks? We’re excited to announce that we are now looking for beta users of BitNami Studio, our new offering that enables you to create customized, ready-to-run virtual machine or cloud images for your own internal applications or open source applications in minutes. The goal of BitNami Studio is to make it easy for you to build, clone, edit, and test your own application stacks. It is extremely flexible and allows you to customize each layer of the stack – the application, the runtime, the operating system … more

We are happy to announce a new release of BitNami RubyStack. This version includes some significant improvements: * A development release has been included. Since Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3 are bringing incredible performance boosts and exciting new features, we wanted to provide you with a tool to make it easy to quickly adapt your application to them and benefit from their improvements. We will keep this version up to date with latest releases so you can easily setup a fully working environment for your development and tests. That way, you will be ready to use them in your … more

Paul Blair from InfoQ did a nice write up of deployment containers for JRuby webapps, including Glassfish, Jetty and Tomcat, in which he mentions BitNami JRubyStack: infoq.com/news/2010/04/glassfish-gem-alternatives-jruby … more

Are you into Ruby? Do you live in Europe? If so, you should really try to make it to Euruko, the European Ruby conference. This year, it is in Kraków, Poland on May 29th and 30th. The event is being held at the Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology, located on the WisÅ‚a river near the heart of historic Kraków and with a view of the Wawel Castle.

We’re happy to announce that BitNami is sponsoring the conference along with ProRuby, Ragnarson, Picklive, ASPGems, mWorks, 3Scale and Wooga. That will keep the cost low for … more

Now that the beta release of Ruby on Rails 3 is available, we wanted to make it easy for you to check out all of the improvements that have been made. We just released a new version of BitNami RubyStack that allows you to install a complete, ready-to-run Rails 3 environment in just a few clicks. If you choose to install the stack natively, you will be asked if you want to install the Rails 3 gems or not. If you opt out, you will have a stable release of Rails installed and completely configured.
As with all … more

Visit rails3info.com and find out all you need to know about the new Ruby on Rails 3! Tutorials, presentations and articles in one convenient place. … more

As you may know, we recently released BitNami RubyStack 2.0, which includes a number of updates and enhancements. The primary changes are the addition of Ruby Enterprise for OS X and Linux and Phussion Passenger configured by default with Apache and Nginx. We have also improved performance and streamlined the deployment process. If you haven’t experimented with Ruby on Rails yet, BitNami RubyStack makes it incredibly easy. Just visit the download page and choose from a native installer, a virtual machine image, or a cloud template (for Amazon and GoGrid). Regardless of the deployment option you choose, you … more

We are glad to announce a new version of RubyStack that includes improved performance and deployment options with Ruby Enterprise and Phusion Passenger You can download it now at the RubyStack section … more

Updated 2010-05-18 Added steps to upgrade the whole stack and other small updates related to Redmine 0.9.x
A lot of BitNami users have asked in our forums how to create a backup or update Redmine. We have compiled all questions and solutions in this post to facilitate this task for other BitNami users. Although this post is based on the BitNami Redmine Stack, some of these solutions are valid for other BitNami applications. Throughout the article, we will use the installdir term to refer us to the installation directory. On Linux it is usually “/home/redmine-version” when installed as a regular … more