Running the application

[ianwalter]

I think there should be an easy way to start Redis, PostgresSQL, the Rails server, (and Guard?) all at once. What would be the best practice way of doing this? As a Rake task?

[simple10]

Vagrant is probably the easiest way to get dependencies running across platforms.

Generalized dependency start up scripts always run into platform specific issues and tend to confuse people more than they help. So it's usually best to just create your own Vagrant box or start up script that is specific to your local dev machine. On Linux and OSX systems, most developers just write bash scripts.

[ianwalter]

That is fair, thanks.