Ruby 1.8.7 and Linux happy.

Hey Alex.  Just a couple suggested changes.

I imagine this project will be useful as a zip download.  People should just download the zip and start their own projects.   No need to fork.  In that model, I would leave Gemfile.lock and schema.rb files out.

local_config_example.yml is a funny one.  Normally I would keep it as local_config.yml (like database.yml).  However, people who download the zip should never check in local_config.yml.  So I put local_config.yml in the gitignore.  So to ship an example file, it has to be named different.  Yippeee!

-Tim