After fooling around with creating a VM for the RailsBridge Bugmash insta-server, I decided that it was just too unwieldy. There are simply too many moving parts to make a small VM. That got me thinking…

Enter the script!

I have hacked together a basic Debian script which will take a bare bones system, install all of the requirements and use rvm to download, install, configure and gem up several flavors of ruby.

It’s over on github – so please feel free to fork, improve, and send pull requests.