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 [wiki]: https://github.com/cantino/huginn/wiki
 [novice-setup-guide]: https://github.com/cantino/huginn/wiki/Novice-setup-guide
 
-### Nitrous Quickstart
-
-You can quickly create a free development environment for this Huginn project in the cloud on www.nitrous.io:
-
-<a href="https://www.nitrous.io/quickstart?repo=https://github.com/cantino/huginn">
-  <img src="https://nitrous-image-icons.s3.amazonaws.com/quickstart.png" alt="Nitrous Quickstart" width=142 height=34>
-</a>
-
-In the IDE, start Huginn via `Run > Start Huginn` and access your site via `Preview > 3000`.
-
 ### Develop
 
 All agents have specs! And there's also acceptance tests that simulate running Huginn in a headless browser. 
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-#!/bin/bash
-
-rm -rf ~/code/example
-
-export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
-export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
-export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
-
-sudo apt-get update
-sudo -E apt-get -q -y install mysql-server
-sudo apt-get -y install libmysqlclient-dev pwgen
-sudo apt-get clean
-
-cp .env.example .env
-
-MYSQL_PASSWORD=`pwgen -1`
-mysql -u root -e "CREATE USER 'huginn'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '$MYSQL_PASSWORD';"
-mysql -u root -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'huginn'@'localhost';"
-sed -i 's/DATABASE_USERNAME=.*/DATABASE_USERNAME=huginn/g' .env
-sed -i "s/DATABASE_PASSWORD=.*/DATABASE_PASSWORD=\"$MYSQL_PASSWORD\"/g" .env
-
-APP_SECRET_TOKEN=`pwgen 24 -1`
-sed -i "s/APP_SECRET_TOKEN=.*/APP_SECRET_TOKEN=$APP_SECRET_TOKEN/g" .env
-
-npm install -g phantomjs-prebuilt
-gem install bundler
-bundle install
-bundle exec rake db:create
-bundle exec rake db:migrate
-bundle exec rake db:seed
-
-cat >> ~/code/huginn/README.nitrous.md <<EOT
-# Setup
-
-Welcome to your Huginn project on Nitrous.
-
-## Running the development server:
-
-In the [Nitrous IDE](https://community.nitrous.io/docs/ide-overview), start Huginn via "Run > Start Huginn" and wait for 30 seconds for the server to be started.
-
-Now you've got a development server running and can see the output in the Nitrous terminal window. You can open up a new shell or utilize [tmux](https://community.nitrous.io/docs/tmux) to open new shells to run other commands.
-
-## Preview the app
-
-In the Nitrous IDE, open the "Preview" menu and click "Port 3000".
-EOT