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Database

Our production application runs on mysql, but for development, sqlite3 is sufficient.

  • Mac OS X: Macs ship with sqlite3 already installed.
  • Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt-get install sqlite3
  • Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS: sudo yum install sqlite -- you may need sqlite-devel as well.

Image libraries (optional)

If you are just developing and don't plan to do work with image uploading, you may not need the following, but otherwise:

sudo apt-get install imagemagick ruby-rmagick

Ruby

Install rvm for Ruby management (http://rvm.io)

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

Note: At this point during the process, you may want to log out and log back in, or open a new terminal window; RVM will then properly load in your environment.

Ubuntu users: You may need to enable Run command as a login shell in Ubuntu's Terminal, under Edit > Profile Preferences > Title and Command. Then close the terminal and reopen it. You may also want to run source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm to load RVM.

Then, use RVM to install version 2.4.4 of Ruby. (v1.9.3+ should also work):

rvm install 2.4.4

Gems with Bundler

Ruby dependencies, or Gems, are managed with Bundler.

gem install bundler - if it's not already installed, but it should be in a basic RVM ruby.

Assets with Yarn

You'll also need yarn to get your JavaScript dependencies.

The official installation section for yarn has installation details for many systems.

Use yarn --version to verify whether the installation is up and running!

Note: In case the options described above do not work for you, you can also install yarn using npm,though it is generally not recommended. As a prerequisite, you will have to install Node.js if not already installed. To install yarn using npm, use npm install --global yarn and continue with path setup similar to the usual installation.

phantomjs for javascript tests (optional)

We are using jasmine-rails gem for the optional javascript tests (run with rake spec:javascript) which require phantomjs for headless testing (i.e. on the commandline, not with a browser). Generally the phantomjs gem gets installed along with the jasmine-rails gem. If the package installation for the gem fails you can use this script to install it.

But some architectures (Linux!) aren't supported by the phantomjs gem. For those you have to run phantomjs via a native binary, you can find the installation instructions in its official build documentation. For Ubuntu/debian based system you can follow these instructions or use the script mentioned there. On successful installation you can see the version number of phantomjs with the phantomjs -v command. For the binary to work properly with jasmine-rails change the line 52 on spec/javascripts/support/jasmine.yml to use_phantom_gem: false.

Please report any error regarding phantomjs installation in the github issue tracker. We will try to help you out as soon as we can!