1 ===============================================
2 === Getting Selectricity ======================
3 ===============================================
5 Selectricity is free software and is distributed under the GNU Affero
6 General Public License version 3. You are free to use, modify, and
7 distribute, or rework Selectricity under the terms of that license. Of
8 course, we'd sure like it if you would send fixes back to us and tell us
9 about cool stuff you do with our software!
11 The best way to get Selectricity is just to download it from our source
12 tree. At the moment, we're hosting our code at Gitorious which is a
13 free software hosting provider. You can download Gitorious at the
14 project page by following detailed instructions at Gitorious:
16 http://gitorious.org/selectricity
19 ===============================================
20 === Getting Help and Contributing =============
21 ===============================================
23 If you have a question, you can always email the core team at:
27 If you want to get involved in development, want to discuss
28 selectricity, or want to participate, please subscribe to our mailing
31 http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/selectricity
33 In terms of bugs and documentation, we current plan to build this out in
34 our Gitorious wiki so feel free to get started with your own efforts
35 along these lines there:
37 http://gitorious.org/selectricity/pages/Home
40 ===============================================
41 === Dependencies ==============================
42 ===============================================
44 To use Selectricity, you'll need to install the following gems in
45 addition to Ruby on Rails (gem:rails), MySQL (gem:mysql), and its
49 * gruff (http://nubyonrails.com/pages/gruff)
50 * sparklines (http://nubyonrails.com/pages/sparklines)
52 To use Selectricity in development mode, you'll need to install the
57 Also, you will need install the other applications installed first:
59 * imagemagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/)
61 On Ubuntu, you can install install the dependencies with:
62 apt-get install imagemagick libmagick9-dev ruby1.8-dev libwmf-bin rdoc \
63 libopenssl-ruby1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 libmysqlclient15-dev
65 Our server configuration uses Mongrel (installed from gems) behind an
66 Apache2 load balancing proxy using mod_proxy.
68 You'll also need to have a MTA installed. We use Postfix and have not
69 tried it with any other system. Presumably though, anything that
70 provides '/usr/bin/sendmail' should work.
74 ===============================================
75 === Contributors to Selectricity Include ======
76 ===============================================
78 * Benjamin Mako Hill <mako@atdot.cc>
79 * John Dong <jdong@ubuntu.com>
80 * Justin Sharps <jlsharps@mit.edu>