This is the source code to the site operating at [https://lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs). It is a Rails 3 codebase and uses a SQL (MySQL in production) backend for the database and Sphinx for the search engine.
- Create a MySQL (other DBs supported by ActiveRecord may work, only MySQL has been tested) database, username, and password and put them in a `config/database.yml` file:
- The default development hostname is defined as `lobsters.localhost:3000`. You should define this in `/etc/hosts` (or through DNS) to point to `127.0.0.1`.
- Run the Rails server in development mode. You should be able to login to `http://lobsters.localhost:3000` with your `test` user: