Splitting out mailer.rb into an example file

README.md

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ The campaign management area for TransparencyCorps is at transparencycorps.org/a
 
 Inside the campaign management area, a campaign manager can create, update, and delete campaigns (but only their own, obviously).  Campaign ownership is given to a particular user; they cannot be jointly owned by more than one user account.  Some basic statistics regarding that user's campaigns will be shown in a sidebar inside this area.
 
+
 ## API
 
 The API has two parts - creating a new task, and completing a task.
@@ -44,4 +45,13 @@ When a user completes a task on a campaign, that campaign should perform a POST
 
 http://transparencycorps.org/tasks/complete
 
-The only parameter to send is "task_key", with the value being the task_key that was originally given as a parameter when the user first created their task.
+The only parameter to send is "task_key", with the value being the task_key that was originally given as a parameter when the user first created their task.
+
+## Developing Locally
+
+To set up this app to run locally:
+
+* copy config/initializers/mailer.rb.example to config/initializers/mailer.rb and fill in your mailer settings
+* copy config/database.yml.example to config/database.yml and fill in your database settings
+* run "rake db:schema:load" to initialize the database
+* run "rake db:fixtures:load" to get a starting admin user account, with username/password: user1/test

config/initializers/mailer.rb.example

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+ActionMailer::Base.smtp_settings = {
+  :address => '',
+  :port => 25,
+  :user_name => '',
+  :password => '',
+  :authentication => :plain,
+  :domain => ''
+}