# How to install Luvfoo #
 
1. Start by making sure your RubyGems are version 1.2.0 or greater:
 
        sudo gem update --system
 
2. Add the Github repository to your gems:
 
        sudo gem sources -a http://gems.github.com
 
3. Luvfoo runs on Ruby on Rails, so first you need to get Rails running. In order to do that, download Rails from the [Ruby on Rails site] or install though gems:
 
        sudo gem install rails -v=2.1.1
 
4. Copy config/database.yml.example to config/database.yml and edit it to reflect the database names you would like to use.
 
5. Copy config/global_config.yml.example to config/global_config.yml and edit it to reflect your application customized configurations.
 
6. Copy config/environments/production.rb.example to config/environments/production.rb and edit `asset_host` in order to reflects the name of the production asset server.
 
7. Configure your mail settings inside of production.rb ie:
 
    ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :smtp
    ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
      :address => "mail.luvfoo.com",
      :port => 25,
      :domain => "luvfoo.com",
      :authentication => :login,
      :user_name => "demo@luvfoo.com",
      :password => "sweet"
    }
 
8. You will need to install some 3th party softwares. Above, there is the command to install them in Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distribuitions:
 
        sudo apt-get install gettext
        
              or in OSX 10.5
              
        sudo gem install gettext
 
9. luvfoo currently has a few dependencies that prevent a basic rake from running. We need to install the following:
 
        sudo gem install mini_magick
        sudo gem install hpricot
        sudo gem install gcnovus-avatar
        
    Now you should be able to run rails built in rake tasks to include the rest.
        
        sudo rake gems:install
 
10. Run the following commands to create the database, the tables and then populate them with default data:
 
        rake db:create
        rake db:schema:load
        
11. We need to get solr running before you can populate the database:
 
        mkdir tmp/pids
        mkdir tmp/pids/solr
        rake solr:start
 
12. Now we can populate the database:
 
        rake luvfoo:db:populate
 
13. Start the server with:
 
        script/server
 
14. Go to http://localhost:3000/ and login with username `admin` and password `admin`. Change it ASAP.
 
15. Have fun with *Luvfoo*!
 
  [Ruby on Rails site]: http://www.rubyonrails.com/  "Ruby on Rails official site"