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Installing RailsCollab

Firstly, a word of warning. You will need a command prompt or terminal open in order to install RailsCollab.

It would also be advisable to get yourself up to scratch with the finer details of Ruby on Rails deployment, especially if you are not planning on deploying using Phusion Passenger.

Requirements

Along with a working installation of the Ruby on Rails Framework, you will need the following to deploy & run RailsCollab:

  • iCalendar - sudo gem install icalendar
  • RedCloth - sudo gem install redcloth
  • ruby-openid - gem install ruby-openid
  • ActionMailer - gem install ActionMailer
  • Ferret - gem install ferret

Plus the following which are optional:

Config files

The following configuration files need to be present:

  • config/database.yml (example at config/database.yml.template)
  • config/app_keys.yml (example at config/app_keys.yml.template)

Deployment

RailsCollab can most optimally be deployed via Phusion Passenger. Simply point a VirtualHost to "railscollab/public", and Passenger should do the rest, with the exception of setting up the database. You will need to do that yourself.

An example VirtualHost for Phusion Passenger deployment would be:

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName megacorp.com
   DocumentRoot /path/to/railscollab/public
</VirtualHost>

In order to facilitate deployment, a rake task called db:railscollab:install has been provided, which will create an initial database. The rake task accepts the following environment variables:

RAILSCOLLAB_INITIAL_USER
	The username of the administrative user
	(default='admin')
RAILSCOLLAB_INITIAL_DISPLAYNAME
	The display name of the administrative user
	(default='Administrator')
RAILSCOLLAB_INITIAL_PASSWORD
	The password of the administrative user
	(default='password')
RAILSCOLLAB_INITIAL_EMAIL
	The email address of the administrative user
	(default='better.set.this@localhost')
RAILSCOLLAB_INITIAL_COMPANY
	The initial name of the owner company
	(default='Company')
RAILSCOLLAB_SITE_URL
	The url of your RailsCollab installation
	(default='http://localhost:3000')

So from scratch, you'd likely do something like to following to install:

  1. Create a 'railscollab' database
  2. Create a config/database.yml file based on config/database.yml.template, using either the development or production environments as your basis.
  3. Run the snippit below
  4. Insert the previously mentioned VirtualHost configuration into your Phusion Passenger installation.
  5. Go to http://servername and login using your supplied credentials

The snippit:

RAILSCOLLAB_INITIAL_USER="billg" \
RAILSCOLLAB_INITIAL_DISPLAYNAME="Bill Gates" \
RAILSCOLLAB_INITIAL_PASSWORD="microsoft" \
RAILSCOLLAB_INITIAL_EMAIL="billg@microsoft.com" \
RAILSCOLLAB_INITIAL_COMPANY="Microsoft" \
RAILSCOLLAB_SITE_URL="projects.microsoft.com" \
rake db:railscollab:install

For more advanced deployment (e.g. using FastCGI or load balancing proxies), refer to the Ruby on Rails documentation.