The following instructions are meant to help get the ODE application up and running on your local workstation. Note, these instructions assume you are setting up a development environment on Linux/OS X.
gem install bundler
REALLY_GEM_UPDATE_SYSTEM=1 gem update --system
gem install rails --include-dependencies
To get started, create a local repository with svn checkout:
svn checkout https://opendesignengine.net/svn/ode/trunk
You will need to setup a local development MySQL database and call it 'ode_development'. Next we need to create a new database.yml so the application knows how to connect to the database. To accomplish this, simple copy the database.yml.exampe file:
cd trunk cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
Under the production: section of the the config file, fill in the database name, username, and password. Be sure to create the database in MySQL afterwards.
To install the required third-party gems to run the ODE application, we run the following Bundler command:
bundle install
Note: You may also need to install the libmysqlclient-dev package to get the MySQL gem to install.
To prepare the database, we first need to run migrations:
RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate
and for the plugins:
RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate_plugins
We now need some seed data to get started:
RAILS_ENV=production rake db:seed
Now we should be ready to run the application locally:
RAILS_ENV=production script/server
If all goes well, you should be able to open the application at http://localhost:3000