From: Benjamin Mako Hill Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 18:09:20 +0000 (-0400) Subject: Merge remote branch 'deployment/live' into live X-Git-Url: https://projects.mako.cc/source/selectricity/commitdiff_plain/e191923a10edc58deee8dac058242ff7528351db?hp=-c Merge remote branch 'deployment/live' into live --- e191923a10edc58deee8dac058242ff7528351db diff --combined README index bb7544e,ea3df41..ae74f91 --- a/README +++ b/README @@@ -1,36 -1,10 +1,37 @@@ =============================================== -=== 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 + +This will give you the latest *development* version of our code. If you +want the latest production version (i.e., what we're running on the +site), you can grab that here: + + git clone http://projects.mako.cc/source/selectricity-live/.git + +=============================================== +=== Dependencies ============================== =============================================== To use Selectricity, you'll need to install the following gems in - addition to Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and its dependencies: + addition to Ruby on Rails (gem:rails), MySQL (gem:mysql), and its + dependencies: * rmagick * gruff (http://nubyonrails.com/pages/gruff) @@@ -46,7 -20,8 +47,8 @@@ Also, you will need install the other a * 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.