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###Journalduhacker Project
This is the source code of the website operating at
[https://www.journalduhacker.net](https://www.journalduhacker.net). It is a Rails 4 codebase and uses a
SQL (MariaDB in production) backend for the database and Sphinx for the search
engine.
This code is forked from the [lobste.rs](https://lobster.rs) engine [available here](https://github.com/lobsters/).
####Contributing bugfixes and new features
Please see the [CONTRIBUTING](https://gitlab.com/journalduhacker/journalduhacker/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md)
file.
####Initial setup
* Install Ruby. This code has been tested with Ruby versions 1.9.3, 2.0.0, 2.1.0,
and 2.3.0.
* Checkout the journalduhacker git tree from Github
$ git clone https://gitlab.com/journalduhacker/journalduhacker.git
$ cd journalduhacker
journalduhacker$
* Run Bundler to install/bundle gems needed by the project:
journalduhacker$ bundle
* Create a MySQL (other DBs supported by ActiveRecord may work, only MySQL and
MariaDB have been tested) database, username, and password and put them in a
`config/database.yml` file:
development:
adapter: mysql2
encoding: utf8mb4
reconnect: false
database: journalduhacker_dev
socket: /tmp/mysql.sock
username: *username*
password: *password*
test:
adapter: sqlite3
database: db/test.sqlite3
pool: 5
timeout: 5000
* Load the schema into the new database:
journalduhacker$ rake db:schema:load
* Create a `config/initializers/secret_token.rb` file, using a randomly
generated key from the output of `rake secret`:
Lobsters::Application.config.secret_key_base = 'your random secret here'
* (Optional, only needed for the search engine) Install Sphinx. Build Sphinx
config and start server:
journalduhacker$ rake ts:rebuild
* Define your site's name and default domain, which are used in various places,
in a `config/initializers/production.rb` or similar file:
class << Rails.application
def domain
"example.com"
end
def name
"Example News"
end
end
Rails.application.routes.default_url_options[:host] = Rails.application.domain
* Put your site's custom CSS in `app/assets/stylesheets/local`.
* Seed the database to create an initial administrator user and at least one tag:
journalduhacker$ rake db:seed
created user: test, password: test
created tag: test
* Run the Rails server in development mode. You should be able to login to
`http://localhost:3000` with your new `test` user:
journalduhacker$ rails server
* In production, set up crontab or another scheduler to run regular jobs:
*/20 * * * * cd /path/to/journalduhacker && env RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake ts:index > /dev/null