INSTALL.md

Setup

I suggest using RVM or RBENV to manage your ruby VMs. I will assume you are using RVM, so if more information is needed please take the time to watch Ryan Bates' screencast on getting started with Ruby on Rails.

• Install Ruby 1.9.3 -- rvm install 1.9.3
• Install imagemagick, preferably with homebrew -- brew install imagemagick

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Configuration

Your database config needs to be created - config/database.yml. There is a sample database.yml file for pg. Copy one of those two files to config/database.yml and configure for your environment & database.

NOTE: Because of the use of Postgres's full-text search capabilities in the source, Thredded no longer supports mysql out of the box.

config/database.yml

  defaults: &defaults
    adapter: postgresql
    encoding: UTF8
    host: localhost
    port: 5432

  development:
    <<: *defaults
    database: thredded_dev
    username: username
    password: password

  test:
    <<: *defaults
    database: thredded_test
    username: username
    password: password

  production:
    <<: *defaults
    database: thredded_production
    username: username
    password: password

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Setup

• Install the gem dependencies with

  bundle install

• Create the database, migrate the tables and seed with your own data:

  bundle exec rake db:create db:migrate db:test:prepare

• start the server with

  rails s

• Open your local server up in your browser and follow the setup "wizard". That will help you set up your site and first messageboard

Heroku

• use the cedar stack - heroku create -s cedar
• once your slug is compiled just visit the URL that heroku provides you and start the setup from right there.