FAVS

FAVS allows teachers display content from their pupils’ blogs at their website, and lets the students vote the best posts and check the stats with just one simple html tag

Requirements

• memcached run as a daemon on default port (11211) – http://www.danga.com/memcached/
• Ruby – http://www.ruby-lang.org/
• Rubygems – http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=126
• GD2 library – http://www.boutell.com/gd/
• gem list:
  • rails
  • hpricot
  • simple-rss
  • open-uri
  • timeout
  • cached_model
  • mongrel
  • gd2
• Database (mysql, sqlite, …)

Install

Get necessary gems

sudo gem install -y rails hpricot simple-rss open-uri timeout cached_model mongrel rfeedreader rfeedfinder

Create and configure database.yml

cp config/database.yml.tmpl config/database.yml

Install database schema

rake db:schema:dump

Run

In your FAVS rails directory:

mongrel_rails start

Access FAVS in your browser