Guild

A forum running in production.

Setup and Install

The Guild is a Node.js app that talks to a Postgres database.

• Install the latest stable version of Node.

• The Guild depends on the plv8 Postgres extension.

• Download the repository and enter the directory that it created:

    git clone git@github.com:danneu/guild.git
    cd guild
  

• Enter the guild directory and install its dependencies:

    npm install
  

• Launch Postgres (by default it will run on http://localhost:5432) and create an empty database named guild.

    createdb guild
  

• The Guild comes with a command that rebuilds the database with tables and fills them with some data to play with:

    npm run reset-db
  

• Now you can launch the server:

    npm start
    > Listening on http://localhost:3000
  

Config and Environment Variables

The Guild is configured with environment variable listed in server/config.js.

It will run with the default variables, but some features are turned off until they are configured:

• Email-sending system requires AWS_KEY and AWS_SECRET (your http://aws.amazon.com/ API creds)
• User registration system requires RECAPTCHA_SITEKEY and RECAPTCHA_SITESECRET (your https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/index.html API creds)