Installation/Script

Foreword

This articles focuses on how to get a development environment setup on a linux distribution. Besides installation means, the setting up should be pretty the same on Windows. If you have any problem, don't hesitate to join us on IRC

The project uses the following tools with following versions. We will explain you how to get them :

Tool	Version
Ruby	2.1.2
Ruby Gem	any
Rails	4.1.6
RVM	any
Rspec	3.0
Bundler gem	any

Step 1: Get the sources and install the tools

The diaspora* project uses git and Github to manage sources. You can clone them with the following command :

   git clone https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora.git

Then, to get the tools, you must use the packaging command-line tool of your distribution : apt-get, urpmi, yum, etc... Ruby should be in every decent distribution repo :

  # On Mageia/Mandriva :
  urpmi ruby
  # On Ubuntu/Debian :
  apt-get install ruby
  # On Fedora/CentOS :
  yum install ruby

The other tools might or might not be prepackaged by your distribution. On Mageia/Mandriva Linux, you should do the following :

  urpmi ruby-RubyGems
  urpmi ruby-rails
  urpmi ruby-rvm
  urpmi ruby-rspec
  urpmi ruby-bundler

Your distribution might have a different naming scheme for ruby packages. If they are not named the same way than on Mageia/Mandriva, you can search them with the following :

  # On Fedora/CentOS :
  yum search rvm
  # On Debian/Ubuntu :
  apt-cache search rvm

If you can't find any of these, you should be able to get all the required tools with RubyGems. Please refer to the following page to see how to install and use it.

It is better to use the tools packaged by your distribution than these installed by gem if they exists. At least, you should have the rvm and bundler gems installed.

Step 2: Setting up the environment

Once you have rvm and bundler installed, place yourself in the diaspora source directory and type :

   # Will install the correct version of ruby
   rvm install 2.1.2
   # Rvm requires bash to be run in login mode before setting a default version of Ruby
   /bin/bash --login
   # Will use the correct version of ruby by default
   rvm use 2.1.2 --default
   # Turn off the previous bash thread
   exit

the --default option will make ruby use the version by default in every shell. Without this option, you will have to type rvm use 2.0.0-p481 each time you want to start the diaspora server.

Then, install all the required bundles :

   bundle update

One last step : configure all the config files ! Move to ./config and copy all the .example files renaming them by removing the .example part. You should have three : diaspora.yml.example, database.yml.example and schedule.yml.example. Or you can do it with one command-line... because it's cool !

   for file in `ls *.example`; do cp "$file" `echo "$file" | sed s/.example//`; done

Then, edit the file database.yml to set the credentials to your database. by default, it is using mysql, but you can set postgres. You just have to comment the line <<: *mysql and uncomment #<<: *postgres

If you want to work on the XMPP chat, please also follow the instructions there.

Step 3 : start the server !

   ./script/server

and go to the page http://0.0.0.0:3000

Step 4 : Run tests

 rake

Step 5 : Troubles ?

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