This installation guide is written for development on Ubuntu, and has been tested on Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04, and 22.04.
I've run considerit in an Ubuntu VM on my Mac, managed by Vagrant and provisioned by Ansible. I also have run it directly on my Mac. For development on MacOS, a simple way to get an Ubuntu virtual machine is to install Canonical's Multipass, then create and launch the virtual machine:
multipass launch --disk 10G
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y upgrade
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
sudo -E apt-get -y install advancecomp autoconf automake bison build-essential \
curl exuberant-ctags gifsicle git-core imagemagick \
jpegoptim libcurl4-openssl-dev libjpeg-progs libmagickcore-dev \
libmagickwand-dev libmysqlclient-dev libreadline6-dev \
libreadline-dev libssl-dev libncurses5-dev libtool libxml2-dev \
libxslt1-dev libyaml-dev memcached mysql-server openssl optipng nodejs npm \
pngcrush python3-apt python-pip python3-mysqldb ruby-build ruby-dev \
unattended-upgrades unzip zlib1g zlib1g-dev
The non-interactive prompt prevents mysql-server from asking for a root password to your database. We'll set that later.
git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.profile
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.profile
git clone https://github.com/sstephenson/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.profile
source ~/.profile
rbenv install -v 3.2.2
rbenv global 3.2.2
gem install bundler
You can probably install a more recent version of Ruby. I just haven't tested it with required gems. gem install may require several attempts to complete. If dependency tomoto fails to build, it can be manually deleted from Gemfile, since it is not necessary for all development work.
sudo service mysql restart
sudo mysqladmin -u root password root
echo "ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'root';" | sudo mysql
echo "create database considerit_dev;" | mysql -u root -proot
We'll use root user/pass here. But you can set it to what you want, as long as you substitute it in in appropriate places, such as config/database.yml (created later in this guide).
git clone https://github.com/tkriplean/ConsiderIt.git considerit
cd considerit
cp config/dev_database.yml config/database.yml
cp config/dev_local_environment.yml config/local_environment.yml
bundle install
npm install
rake db:schema:load
rake db:migrate
Note that if you plan on committing a lot of code, you might want to take the time to set up the considerit repository with ssh keys: https://help.github.com/articles/generating-an-ssh-key/. That means using a different git clone protocol as well.
Make sure you're in your considerit directory.
You'll want to have webpack watching in the background for changes to your javascript. Webpack may occasionally freeze and need a restart.
bin/webpack &
Then start your rails server. If using a Multipass VM, set flag --binding using the IP from multipass list.
rails s
You might also want to have delayed_job running in the background. Delayed_job processes background jobs like uploaded avatars. Not needed though for most development work.
bin/delayed_job restart
After you make a considerit account for yourself, you'll probably want to make yourself a superadmin. First load the rails console:
rails c
Then set the field:
u=User.find_by_email('[email protected]')
u.super_admin=true
u.save
Then manually create a forum using mysql:
mysql -u root -proot considerit_dev
insert into subdomains (id, name, created_at, updated_at, created_by) values
( 1, 'MY DOMAIN NAME', now(), now(), (select id from users where email='[email protected]') );
quit