A simple application around the Pale Blue Dot project, to make it easier to adopt a star.
 
Issue tracker at Lighthouse:
http://sjors.lighthouseapp.com/projects/29064-pale-blue-dot/
 
More info about the Pale Blue Dot project:
http://whitedwarf.org/palebluedot/
 
This project is not in any way associated with Pale Blue Dot; it's just me. But who knows that might change.
 
At the moment, it doesn't do anything useful except show a list of stars. Here's a list of possible improvements (for I which I don't have time, so patches are welcome):
 
* Facebook / Etc integration, e.g.
** show your friend's stars on map
** find a bright star near your friends
* search for cool astronomic coincidences, e.g.
** eclipsed by Jupiter on your birthday
* etc, etc
 
Installation:
 
Install ruby on rails on your machine. 
 
Install MySQL on your machine. Also install development files, e.g. libmysqlclient15-dev
 
Download the source. 
 
Run:
sudo rake gems:install
 
Create a MySQL database:
 
create database kepler;
grant all privileges on kepler.* to kepler@localhost identified by 'kepler';
 
Create the stars table:
rake db:mgirate
 
Download the stars:
wget http://whitedwarf.org/palebluedot/KIC.txt
 
Import the stars:
mysql kepler -u kepler -p < import-stars.sql
 
Get a Google Maps API key. 
 
Copy config/app_config.yml.example to app_config.yml and add your key to this file.
 
Run server:
script/server
 
Point your browser to:
 http://localhost:3000/