University of California at Berkeley
           Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
                         Instructional Support Group

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								 Nov 27, 2006
CONTENTS:
	Ruby components
	Ruby on the Instructional systems

								
Ruby components
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  Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org) is a progamming language that is often used 
  to create WEB CGI scripts.

  Ruby on Rails (http://www.rubyonrails.org/) is a programming framework for 
  developing database-backed web applications.

  RubyGems (http://rubygems.org/) is a packaging system that provides a 
  standard format for destributing Ruby programs and libraries, a tool for 
  managing the installation of gem packages and a server utility for serving 
  gems from any machine where RubyGems is installed.  (A "gem" is a packaged 
  Ruby application or library.)

  These are public-domain applications.

Ruby on the Instructional systems
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  The Ruby interpreter, Rails and RubyGems are installed for Solaris X86
  systems in the CS186 instructor home directory on the EECS Instructional 
  UNIX systems.  The Instructional WEB server (http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu)
  runs on a Solaris X86 system.  Students cannot login to inst.eecs, but they
  test their code on the X86 login servers (for a list of the current servers,
  see http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/clients.cgi?choice=servers).

  Ruby is also installed on the MacOSX systems in 349 Soda.  To find it,
  type "locate /ruby | more".


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