Development Box Setup

We Work in Philly was forked from the citizenry project. It seems this project is no longer under active development. It is, however, useful for historical purposes and there is a rails 3.2 branch that hints at how to upgrade.

• https://github.com/reidab/citizenry/

install rvm

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails --autolibs=enabled

setup ruby

rvm install ruby-1.9.2

update gems

gem update --system

install bundler

gem install bundler

install dependencies

env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" bundle install

install imagemagick

brew install imagemagick

create database, migrate, prepare db tests

bundle exec rake db:create db:migrate db:test:prepare

run the application

./go

NOTE: you must login as "sample user" when you run the application. we do not reveal the twitter/linkedin keys. if you're working on twitter/linkedin integration, you can provide your own keys in the go script.

Original Developer Notes

Check out the Original Developer Notes. There is a lot of useful recipes that explain how to setup development machines, switching from staging to production, migration of databases, etc. It is not very organized though.