Recommend me on Working With Rails

I'm very disappointed. I got around to looking at my Working With Rails profile tonight and I noticed that my popularity is 88%. Whatever does that mean? Seems to be some sort of amalgamation of how many people have recommended me... But I've never asked anyone to recommend me, so being #930 isn't terrible, I suppose. But it should be much better! I made three major releases of the RailsLiveCD! It's been downloaded over 150,000 times just from my home server... That's got to be worth more than #930.
Recommend me on Working With Rails --- Right the wrong.
I'm a people person. And dammit, people like me.

Senior Rails Developer needed in Tampa

If you want to be part of one of the largest Rails shops in Florida, shoot me a line at bketelsen@gmail.com We're looking for one Senior level Ruby on Rails hacker. Must have solid experience with Rails and MySQL, JRuby is a plus.

Position : Senior Software Engineer
Location : Tampa, FL
Pay : Competitive
Tools : Ruby, Rails, MySQL, Java, Solr, .Net
Start : Immediate
Contact : BKetelsen@gmail.com

My name is Still Moe Ron

The download links in the last post didn't include the "get around port 80 port forwarding" that I have to do to serve http on Verizon's Fios. Please try again!

You can download it here:
From Brian's Mac Mini
Or you can get the torrent

And to make matters worse, I port forwarded to the laptop I carry with me everywhere instead of the desktop that always stays here serving (nothing). Please do try again.

RailsLiveCD Version 0.3.1 - Just in time for RailsConf 2007

I'm excited to announce that the latest version of RailsLiveCD is ready for prime-time. You can download it here:
From Brian's Mac Mini
Or you can get the torrent

Please see the archives for information about the included features. Highlights:

Ruby
Rails
SQLite
RadRails
Java
VNC
Several useful gems

All in all, it's a fully functional Rails Development environment from the start.

Comments encouraged, nice comments welcomed.

RailsLive Version 0.3.1

I cranked out another version this morning, on my never-ending quest to make the RailsLiveCD a great introduction to the Rails universe. I think this one is ready for the public. If anyone wants an advance release copy, shoot me an email and I'll put you on the beta list.

bketelsen@gmail.com

Ingredients List:

So Far:

Rails 1.2.3
SQLite3
Ruby 1.8.5
RubyGems 0.9.2
Flexmock
Mocha
TestSpec
Piston
Subversion
Firefox

Of course there is much more, but this is the base. I have a lot of fun putting these releases together. The little touches are what make it worthwhile, like adding Firefox extensions and bookmarks.

RailsLiveCD 0.3.0

The new RailsLiveCD features SQLite3 (and only SQLite3) as a database engine. Why? Well because it's really damned unreliable getting MySQL to be running on a LiveCD. It only works some of the time. Like maybe 3.2% of the time. So in keeping with my new simplification plans, I'm installing and configuring the 0.3.0 release to use only SQLite3. And it's quite zippy, I might add.