This is the sample application for Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails by Example by Michael Hartl.
This version was modified by Matt Newton to work with MySQL as a backend instead of SQLite. This required following instructions here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1670154/convert-a-ruby-on-rails-app-from-sqlite-to-mysql, and running the following command to install Ubuntu 11.10 prereqs:
sudo apt-get install mysql-admin mysql-navigator nodejs libmysqlclient16-dev