So I got a Raspberry Pi at home that I use as a dashboard, it shows me all family calendars, train status for my stop etc. To get it to work as good as possible I made the following tweaks to my installation. To keep the screen allways on & auto start midori

$ sudo nano /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
# add the following lines to the [SeatDefaults] section
# don't sleep the screen
xserver-command=X -s 0 dpms

$ sudo nano /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/autostart
# comment everything and add the following lines
@xset s off
@xset -dpms
@xset s noblank
@midori

from http://www.niteoweb.com/blog/raspberry-pi-boot-to-browser Unclutter To hide the mouse pointer when it's not used install unclutter, sudo apt-get install unclutter Script to autostart rails on startup

#! /bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          rails
# Required-Start:    $remote_fs $syslog
# Required-Stop:     $remote_fs $syslog
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: Start a Rails instance
# Description:       Do the simplest thing possible in keeping with
#             upstart to spin up a single Rails instance.
### END INIT INFO

# Author: Sam Pointer & Fredrik Leijon
#
# Do NOT "set -e"

PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/pi/.rvm/bin
USER="pi"
PORT=3000
RAILS_ROOT="/home/pi/path_to_app"
COMMAND="rails s -d"
DESCRIPTION="Rails instance"
RVM_PROFILE="/home/pi/.rvm/environments/default"

# Load the VERBOSE setting and other rcS variables
. /lib/init/vars.sh

# Define LSB log_* functions.
# Depend on lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) to ensure that this file is present.
. /lib/lsb/init-functions

#
# Function that starts the daemon/service
#
do_start()
{
    # Return
    #   0 if daemon has been started
    #   1 if daemon was already running
    #   2 if daemon could not be started
    su -c "source $RVM_PROFILE && cd $RAILS_ROOT && $COMMAND" $USER
}

case "$1" in
  start)
        [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_daemon_msg "Starting $DESCRIPTION"
        do_start
        case "$?" in
                0|1) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 0 ;;
                2) [ "$VERBOSE" != no ] && log_end_msg 1 ;;
        esac
        ;;
esac

from http://blog.sam-pointer.com/2011/03/24/starting-a-rails-instance-automatically-on-boot-on-ubuntu-server.html, slightly modified to support rvm. Script is also available here as a gist.