I had a nasty run-in recently when I had to deal with user related data from users that are from different geographical locations spread out across the world. I was looking at setting up a collaboration platform for a private group of users and decided to do a local install of Gitorious.
Not coming from a Ruby background I found it tremendously difficult to get it installed and working correctly but eventually after 3 or 4 days I did with Christian Johansen’s instructions and the ubuntu installation instructions. Without these instructions I would have jumped out of a window by now. I was very happy with how well it worked once I had the installation completed though.
