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V Brown edited this page Sep 21, 2016 · 7 revisions

Instructions for using the Action Center without Docker are archived here. These instructions are not actively maintained.

Secrets

Secrets should be loaded into Rails application using environment variables. When running the Action Center in Docker, environment variables are set in docker-compose.yml.

To run the Action Center without Docker, set the environment variables using the included dotenv gem:

  1. Create a file called .env in the root directory of the project.
  2. Copy the environment variables from the docker-compose.yml.example file. The environment variables are marked by ## Start of application environment variables and ## End of application environment variables.
  3. Replace colons with equal signs, ex. storage = s3.
  4. Fill in the environment variables.

Local Setup

Install system package dependencies (the below example works on Ubuntu/precise). You need postresql 9.3 at least.

$  sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib-9.3 libpq-dev libqt4-dev libqtwebkit-dev

For convenience, you may configure a postgresql superuser, and then run the below commands to bring the app online.

$  sudo -u postgres bash -c "psql -c \"CREATE ROLE actioncenter PASSWORD 'CHANGEMEinproduction6f799ae4eb3d59e' SUPERUSER CREATEDB CREATEROLE INHERIT LOGIN; \""

$  bundle install
   rake db:create
   rake db:schema:load
   rails server

Once the server is running, navigate to localhost:3000/register and create yourself a user account. You will need to provide (and confirm) a valid email in order to log in. When that's done, promote yourself to be an admin using the following command:

rake users:add_admin[youremail@example.org]

Now you should be able to go to localhost:3000/admin/action_pages to create your first action page.

Heroku Setup

First create a new app and configure it with a Postgres add on. Then

git remote add heroku git@heroku.com:your-action-center-app.git
git push heroku master
heroku run rake db:migrate

As with above, you can now register a user account and confirm your email.

heroku run rake users:add_admin[youremail@example.org]

Production Setup

Follow these instructions https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-rails-and-nginx-with-passenger-on-ubuntu

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