Welcome to Magpie

MAGPIE is a web server application designed for collaborative work between scientists, especially in the field of bio- and life-sciences. It can be used within scientific groups, as well as in a larger scale on public servers. A demo server is available here.

Getting Started

Preinstalled Image

1. Download the guest image from here

2. Install Virtualbox and import the guest image

3. Start the guest image, open a terminal and run the following:

   $ cd magpie
   $ ./start_server.sh
   

   Note: The password is magpie.

4. Now you are able to connect by open up a browser and go to URL:

   $ localhost:3000
   

5. The administrative login is the following:

   $ Email: admin@admin.com
   $ Password: admin_password_17
   

Manual Installation

1. Install ruby and rails according to the official instructions. You can find the instructions for Ubuntu, Windows and Mac OSX here. There is no need to install MySQL or PostgreSQL.

2. Install necessary packages:

   $ sudo apt-get install docker.io libmagic-dev redis-server
   

3. Adding user to the docker group:

   $ sudo usermod -aG docker $(whoami)
   

   Afterwards you need to log off and log on.

4. Download the magpie project from github. If git is not installed you can either download it directly from here or install as follows:

   $ git clone https://github.com/christbald/magpie.git
   

5. Change into the magpie directory and install the bundles:

   $ cd magpie
   $ bundle install
   

6. Create the database with default entries and prepare the docker image:

   $ rails db:reset
   

7. Start the rails server:

   $ ./start_server.sh
   

8. Now you are able to connect by open up a browser and go to URL:

   $ localhost:3000