Gingerbreak requires literally one command from the command line, and then a few clicks on the phone to get it to run. Really easy stuff.
Please let me know where I can find that info. The only thing I have seen is this;
ROOTING GINGERBREAD
To root your phone is a very simple process and those of us around long enough will recognize this.
you will need adb
and download the following file: Download
1) unpack the contents of the above zip into c:/android-sdk/tools/
2) open a command terminal and go to c:/android-sdk/tools
3) type - adb push su /data/local
4) type - adb push Superuser.apk /data/local
5) type - adb shell
6) type - mount -o remount,rw -t rfs /dev/block/stl19 /system
7) type - cat /data/local/su > /system/xbin/su
8) type - chmod 6755 /system/xbin/su
9) type - cat /data/local/Superuser.apk > /system/app/Superuser.apk
10) type chmod 755 /system/app/Superuser.apk
11) reboot