Selfmarks Installation

So you think you're geek enough to install and run Selfmarks? Good. Here's what you'll need:

• A server
• Ruby
• Gems: ramaze m4dbi json hpricot ruby-openid

Your choice of either:

• PostgreSQL and dbd-pg gem (recommended)
• SQLite3 and dbd-sqlite3 gem

Optional:

• A domain or subdomain
• Apache or nginx or the like (needed for serving from port 80)
• memcached
• gem install hoptoad-notifier-ramaze --source http://purepistos.net

Steps

1. Point your domain to your server (DNS, yadda yadda).
2. Get Ruby (and RubyGems) onto your server.
3. gem install ramaze m4dbi dbd-pg json hpricot ruby-openid
4. Install and setup PostgreSQL.
5. Install and setup Apache/nginx/whatever.
6. git clone git://github.com/Pistos/selfmarks.git && cd selfmarks
7. cp config.rb.sample config.rb
8. ${EDITOR} config.rb
9. createuser the_db_username
10. createdb the_db_name -O the_db_username
11. cat sql/schema.sql | psql -U the_db_username the_db_name # or sql/schema-sqlite.sql
12. cat sql/views.sql | psql -U the_db_username the_db_name
13. ruby start.rb
14. (for port 80 servage) Configure Apache/nginx to proxy your domain to the Ramaze app (http://wiki.ramaze.net/Deployment).
15. Browse to http://yourdomain.com
16. Login with OpenID, or INSERT INTO users ( username, encrypted_password ) VALUES ( 'some_username', 'some_SHA1ed_password' );
17. Go to your old social bookmarking site; export bookmarks in Delicious-compatible format.
18. Import into Selfmarks.
19. Enjoy Selfmarks thoroughly.
20. Permit your most trusted acquaintances to also use your Selfmarks installation. Or not.