== Welcome to El Dorado

El Dorado is a Ruby on Rails application for small groups. It features a forum, event calendar, 
group chat, file sharing, random headers, avatars, themes, timezone support, and privacy settings.

http://almosteffortless.com/eldorado

== Installation

1) Install the required gems: Rails 2.0.2 or greater and TZInfo ("sudo gem install rails tzinfo")
2) Copy config/database.example.yml to config/database.yml and fill in the appropriate details
3) Create your database ("rake db:create") and load the schema ("rake db:schema:load")
4) Start the web server ("script/server") and visit your new site to create the first user account

== Upgrading

Use Capistrano (http://capify.org/) to manage your deployments ("cap deploy:migrations"), otherwise...

1) Download the latest El Dorado release from http://almosteffortless.com/eldorado
2) Replace the files in your installation aside from avatars/files/headers/themes in public/
3) Migrate to the latest database schema ("rake db:migrate") and start your server ("script/server")

== Thanks

NewAthens.org, Matt Brent, Artie Jordan, Max Mearsheimer, Timothy O'Connell, Matz et al. (Ruby), 
DHH et al. (Rails), Rick Olson, Josh Goebel, Justin Palmer, Rickard Andersson et al. (PunBB), 
Matt Mullenweg et al. (WordPress), Michael Heilemann et al. (k2), Josh Peek, and Wilhelm Chung.