README
rails-forum is a basic forum app I created to learn about Ruby on Rails. Hopefully others could use this as a starting place for a forum application.
Developed On
- Ruby: 2.0.0
- Rails: 4.0
- OS: Centos 5/6, Mac OSX 10.8.4
Required Gems
- Devise (User management)
- Bootstrap 3.0
- Kaminari (Pagination)
Getting Started
First you need to clone the project into place.
git clone git@github.com:cha55son/rails-forum.git
Next use bundle to pull in all the required gems
bundle install
Now you need to setup the database
rake db:setup
rake db:migrate
Be sure to copy the development.rb.example to development.rb
cp environments/development.rb.example environments/development.rb
vim environments/development.rb
Update the development.rb file to reflect the host and mail credentials for your site.
Now run the following command to start the server
rails server # Starts on port 3000 use -p to change the port.
You may now connect to the site by visiting http://localhost:3000
The first user to sign up on the site will be given admin privileges and will be able to promote other users to admin status.