Recently I was faced with the challenge of presenting a rails application that I’ve developed at home and in my spare time to my co-workers at my place of work. The problem was that my place of work does not use ruby on rails and are quite strict on letting you install new software. I’m sure this is quite a common scenario
After doing some research online I found a tutorial which showed me how to create a portable version of Ruby on Rails which I could save on a USB flash drive and carry around with me wherever I go. This saved me from having to install anything on my work pc, and allowed me to successfully demo my application.
Word of caution, this will only run on windows.
After the break: how I implemented Portable Apps and added MySQL support.
