X-Git-Url: https://projects.mako.cc/source/selectricity-live/blobdiff_plain/25862916f9c97687bc1b30299fd9d544b0ba62ac..264bf0fb30647f34082b3006206351811b95e941:/README diff --git a/README b/README index 22f3eb7..afa0a25 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,9 +1,42 @@ =============================================== -=== Depedendencies ============================ +=== Getting Selectricity ====================== +=============================================== + +Selectricity is free software and is distributed under the GNU Affero +General Public License version 3. You are free to use, modify, and +distribute, or rework Selectricity under the terms of that license. Of +course, we'd sure like it if you would send fixes back to us and tell us +about cool stuff you do with our software! + +The best way to get Selectricity is just to download it from our source +source repository. You'll need the Git version control system or +source control manager to check it. You can get it here: + + http://git-scm.com/ + +Once you have it, getting the source code is pretty easy. You just need +to check out a branch with a command like this: + + git clone http://projects.mako.cc/source/selectricity/.git + +By default, this will create a working copy with the latest +*development* version of our code. If you want the latest production +version (i.e., what we're running on the site), you need to switch to +the live version of the software which is kept in a branch called +"live." Once you cloned the repository above, you can switch into the +directory (i.e., run "cd selectricity") and then run the following +command: + + git checkout -b live origin/live + + +=============================================== +=== Dependencies ============================== =============================================== To use Selectricity, you'll need to install the following gems in -addition to rails and its dependencies: +addition to Ruby on Rails (gem:rails), MySQL (gem:mysql), and its +dependencies: * rmagick * gruff (http://nubyonrails.com/pages/gruff) @@ -19,7 +52,11 @@ Also, you will need install the other applications installed first: * imagemagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/) On Ubuntu, you can install install the dependencies with: - apt-get install imagemagick libmagick9-dev ruby1.8-dev libwmf-bin + apt-get install imagemagick libmagick9-dev ruby1.8-dev libwmf-bin rdoc \ + libopenssl-ruby1.8 libreadline-ruby1.8 libmysqlclient15-dev + +Our server configuration uses Mongrel (installed from gems) behind an +Apache2 load balancing proxy using mod_proxy. ===============================================