Install Checklist

Before running Park Place we need to make sure we have all the necessary gems installed on our system.

1) Do you have Camping and Rack installed?

gem install camping rack —include-dependencies

2) You need a web server, any will do (mongrel, webrick, thin, etc)

gem install mongrel

3) Do you have SQLite3 installed? (If you don’t want to mess with the
database driver.)

gem install sqlite3-ruby

4) For additional functionality you can install some optional gems.

Metadata

• exifr – used to extract metadata for jpeg images

Master/Slave Replication

• rfuzz – replacement for net/http
• curb – replacement for net/http

S3 Versioning Support

• ruby-git – for S3 Versioning (http://doc.s3.amazonaws.com/betadesign/Versioning.html)

Ajax Upload Progress

• mongrel_upload_progress for nice ajax upload status for large files