As noted in the introduction, I'm currently practicing "thesis-driven development."  This site is fodder for the practical experimentation of what I'm doing.

In addition to a nifty logo, it's a custom Rails app, doing traditional Rails appish things (pages, posts, tags, comments, oh my!).  It uses some popular gems.  It's deployed using capistrano tasks in the way Rubyists are used to. 

But it all runs on JBoss.

The base is:

• JBoss AS 5.0.0.CR2
• Postgres 8.something
• RHEL 4

The gems/extensions/plugins in use by the app currently include:

• aasm
• activerecord-jdbc-adapter-0.8.3
• activerecord-jdbcpostgresql-adapter-0.8.3
• activerecord-jdbcsqlite3-adapter-0.8.3
• atom-tools
• foreign_key_migrations
• haml
• jboss-rails-plugin
• jdbc-postgres-8.2
• jdbc-sqlite3-3.5.8
• rakismet
• redhillonrails_core
• restful_authentication
• transactional_migrations
• will_paginate

I'd also like to welcome my first non-Red Hat committer to these projects.  John Williams is one of the cool kids from Contegix (where this server lives).