what-browser

This is a barebones rails app for exploring the database of the late, great What.CD.

It is available here: http://whatbrowser.astandke.com

Setup

You will need:

• A copy of the What.CD 10-year anniversary mixtape
• Ruby and Rails
• Mysql
• Probably linux or macos, I haven't tested for windows, you're on your own

Follow these steps:

0. Clone the repository
1. Create a database called whatcd
2. Load the mysql dumps provided by What.CD (i.e. 7z e -so torrents.sql.7z | mysql -uroot)
3. bundle install
4. Run the server with rails s or passenger start

That should get you there. Note that you do not need to rake db:migrate, the database does not need to be modified for this tool.

Hacking

You are encouraged to fork this project, host it yourself, and make changes all you wish. I ask that if you add functionality that others might find valuable, you open a Pull Request back here. The code is already in a bit of a... state. So don't worry too much about being pretty.

License

MIT, see LICENSE.TXT