The goal of this work is to take the work done on the Java thick client GUI and make that same functionality available through a web application.

Ruby on Rails

My first thought was that maybe I could point Ruby on Rails to the database that is being used by the GUI. That would provide a nice integration with the Ruby that I would need to parse the log file and the database that contains all the information. I tried doing this on the Mac, but had a heck of a time trying to get the Ruby on Rails to integrate with PostgreSQL. Since we seem to be moving to PostgreSQL, I thought I would start to focus on this for the web application. So, starting with a clean CentOS 6.2 VM, here are the steps I took:

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