Installing to ubuntu 8.04

I have installed spot-us to ubuntu 8.04. This is a record of the instalation.

Installing Rails

Install ruby and rubygems.

$ sudo apt-get install ruby libopenssl-ruby rdoc
$ wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/43985/rubygems-1.3.0.tgz
$ tar zxvf  wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/43985/rubygems-1.3.0.tgz
$ cd  rubygems-1.3.0
$ sudo ruby setup.rb

(Only notable difference installing in debian lenny: the installable rubygems version works, rather than building one from scratch.)

Install mysql and client library for ruby.

$ sudo apt-get install mysql-server
$ sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev libmysqlclient15-dev
$ sudo apt-get build-dep ruby
$ sudo gem install mysql

Install gems used by spot-us

$ sudo gem install fastercsv
$ sudo gem install rubyist-aasm --source='http://gems.github.com'
$ sudo gem install thoughtbot-factory_girl --source='http://gems.github.com'

Currently, rake gems:install fails showing an error.

So you should install them manually.

Installing spot-us

$ git clone git://github.com/spot-us/spot-us.git
$ cd spot-us
$ git checkout -b test_on_ubuntu
$ cd config
$ cp settings.example.yml settings.yml
$ cp database.example.yml database.yml

Add socket: to database.yml.

development:
  adapter: mysql
  database: spotus_development
  username: root
  password:
  socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

test:
  adapter: mysql
  database: spotus_test
  username: root
  password:
  socket: /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock

Create databases.

$ mysql -uroot
> create database spotus_development ;
> create database spotus_test ;
$ rake db:migrate

Run specs for checking

$ sudo apt-get install imagemagick
$ rake spec
...
768 examples, 0 failures, 2 pending

At this time, you can start spot-us and see the start page.

$ script/server

The start page has a video and explanations about what is spot-us. You can see via url http://localhost:3000/

Generate test data

You can generate test data by

$ rake db:populate

see db/fixtures/shared/* for detail.

Register users

(obsolete: this chapter was written before the implementation of db:populate)

Register users for test from rails console.

Spot-us has four kinds of users. You’d better register one user for each kind.

$ script/console

u = Admin.new
u.email = 'a@a'
u.password = u.password_confirmation = 'abcd'
u.first_name=u.last_name='admin'
u.save!

u = Citizen.new
u.email = 'c@c'
u.password = u.password_confirmation = 'abcd'
u.first_name=u.last_name='admin'
u.save!

u = Organization.new
u.email = 'o@o'
u.password = u.password_confirmation = 'abcd'
u.first_name=u.last_name='admin'
u.save!

u = Reporter.new
u.email = 'r@r'
u.password = u.password_confirmation = 'abcd'
u.first_name=u.last_name='admin'
u.save!

Now, you can login to spot-us with email and password and post ‘tips’ and ‘pitches’.