Helicon Zoo — a repository of web frameworks and applications for Microsoft IIS.

Helicon Zoo is a simple and powerful solution for setting up development and production environment with various web frameworks on Windows systems with IIS. It includes such popular frameworks as Ruby on Rails, Django, Node.js and more. Zoo can be used as a platform for Windows shared technology hosting, as well as a development platform for Windows based workstations. It supports IIS 7, IIS 7.5 and IIS Express and uses Web Platform Installer to provide you a simple tool to deploy applications and entire environments.

What's inside:

Python 2.7 + pip

Django 1.3

Ruby 1.9.2

Rails 3.0

Node.JS 0.6

Perl Strawberry 5.12

Before installing Helicon Zoo please read and accept license agreement. Please note this is βeta version of Helicon Zoo product.

• 1 Download and install Microsoft Web Platform Installer

• 2 Run Web Platform Installer and click "Options"

  

• 3 Add Helicon Zoo feed: http://www.helicontech.com/zoo/feed

  

  Click "Add feed" and then click "Ok".

• 4 Install Applications, Engines or WebMatrix Templates package to start using Helicon Zoo

  

Licensing

Helicon Zoo is free, so any help to support it is appreciated! Please blog about Helicon Zoo on your blog, tweet on it, like and share this page on Facebook, etc.

Suggest an application

Number of frameworks and applications provided through Helicon Zoo is instantly growing. We are open to suggestion and propositions to include new cool stuff into this repository. Please use this e-mail to suggest your favorite framework or application and we will consider it: Zoo application suggestion.