Anything speaking against the bitnami.org Ruby/Rails/Redmine Stack?

I am looking to set up a Redmine server on a Windows virtual machine on my local workstation. (Background in this related question.)

I have zero knowledge of Ruby nor Rails, and while Redmine may be the opportunity to dip into those platforms somewhat, my first goal开发者_StackOverflow社区 is to get it running as quickly and easily as possible. For that, I am eyeing the Bitnami Redmine Package. It promises point-and-click install, and a self-contained environment with everything you need.

Apart from the learning factor, are there any serious limitations this method implies? Any serious cutdowns in customizability? I will be wanting to customize the template right away, for example, and install plugins. The package looks o.k. to me but before I install it, I was curious to know whether anybody would advise against it and why.

Edit: The first impression is great. From 0 to a working Redmine installation in twelve minutes! Wow.

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I've been using it for the last 6 months with 0 issues.

Recommended.

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I'm using the Bitnami Redmine stack on Linux, and love it! Like you, I know little about Ruby and RoR, so I was really excited when I discovered Bitnami. I think the main things to consider are the location of the installation files. At least in Linux, I let Bitnami install MySQL to the default location. It worked just fine until I had to install plugins which required database migration; then I was up a creek without a paddle. On the other hand, Bitnami offers a slick uninstaller which gets rid of Redmine and all related services (MySQL, Apache, etc. - if you didn't have them installed before you began).

If you're just wanting to test Redmine out, I highly recommend Bitnami. It'd probably even work well long-term, but you just gotta keep the installation locations in mind. I've been playing with it on Linux for about a week now, and I love it!