If you check http://socialsynergyweb.org/network/category/blog-categories/floss you'll see documentation of infrastructure that I set up on dev server.

We now have mongrel clsuters running, and Imagemagik and rmagick working correctly, plus documentation of how to do it.

When you have a good hammer everything looks like a nail. And arguably, that's the main problem with the positioning of Rails - it's often seen as a solution to everything, which is of course not true. But this is easier said than done, just a little while ago I found myself doing a dinner napkin sketch of a blog controller with trackback, ping, and comment modules. And you know what, it looked good on paper! However, I wasn't building the 'typo/wordpress/typepad' killer, the blog controller was an add-on for a Rails project, and that's when it hit me: why Rails?

Rick, we need to get together with you sometime and talk to you about some about http://wagn.org as an alternative to Drupal for social publishing platform, and probably as an eventual replacement for Culturing. Both Paul and I are using it as desktop wiki right now, and we both are hacking and modifying it.