###Lobsters Rails Project

This is the source code to the site operating at 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.

####Initial setup

• Install Ruby 1.9.3.

• Checkout the lobsters git tree from Github

     $ git clone git://github.com/jcs/lobsters.git
     $ cd lobsters
     lobsters$ 
  

• Run Bundler to install/bundle gems needed by the project:

     lobsters$ bundle
  

• 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:

      development:
        adapter: mysql2
        encoding: utf8
        reconnect: false
        database: lobsters_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:

      lobsters$ rake db:schema:load
  

• Create a config/initializers/secret_token.rb file:

      Lobsters::Application.config.secret_token = 'some 64-byte hexadecimal secret here'
  

• (Optional, only needed for search engine) Install Sphinx. Build Sphinx config and start server:

      lobsters$ rake thinking_sphinx:rebuild
  

• Create an initial administrator user and at least one tag:

      lobsters$ rails console
      Loading development environment (Rails 3.2.6)
      irb(main):001:0> u = User.new(:username => "test", :email => "test@example.com", :password => "test")
      irb(main):002:0> u.is_admin = true
      irb(main):002:0> u.is_moderator = true
      irb(main):003:0> u.save
  
      irb(main):004:0> t = Tag.new
      irb(main):005:0> t.tag = "test"
      irb(main):006:0> t.save
  

• 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:

      lobsters$ rails server
  

####Contributing bugfixes and new features

Please see the CONTRIBUTING file.