=============================================== === 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 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 =============================================== === Getting Help and Contributing ============= =============================================== If you have a question, you can always email the core team at: team@selectricity.org If you want to get involved in development, want to discuss selectricity, or want to participate, please subscribe to our mailing list here: http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/selectricity =============================================== === Dependencies ============================== =============================================== To use Selectricity, you'll need to install the following gems in addition to Ruby on Rails (gem:rails), MySQL (gem:mysql), and its dependencies: * rmagick * gruff (http://nubyonrails.com/pages/gruff) * sparklines (http://nubyonrails.com/pages/sparklines) To use Selectricity in development mode, you'll need to install the following gems: * ruby-debug 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 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. You'll also need to have a MTA installed. We use Postfix and have not tried it with any other system. Presumably though, anything that provides '/usr/bin/sendmail' should work. =============================================== === Contributors to Selectricity Include ====== =============================================== * Benjamin Mako Hill * John Dong * Justin Sharps