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diff --git a/doc/INSTALL.md b/doc/INSTALL.md index 2156f4c4a..09bc8fd43 100644 --- a/doc/INSTALL.md +++ b/doc/INSTALL.md @@ -67,15 +67,7 @@ Some of the files also have a version number listed in config/packages # Install Ruby dependencies -Install rubygems 1.6.2 (we're not using the Debian package because we -need an older version; see "Troubleshooting" below for an -explanation): - - wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/74445/rubygems-1.6.2.tgz -O /tmp/rubygems-1.6.2.tgz - tar zxvf /tmp/rubygems-1.6.2.tgz -C /tmp/ - sudo ruby1.8 /tmp/rubygems-1.6.2/setup.rb - -To install Alaveteli's Ruby dependencies, we also need to install +To install Alaveteli's Ruby dependencies, we need to install bundler. In Debian, this is provided as a package (installed as part of the package install process above). You could also install it as a gem: @@ -230,7 +222,7 @@ for instructions on switching on local and remote performance analysis. In the 'alaveteli' directory, run: - ./script/rails-post-deploy + script/rails-post-deploy (This will need execute privs so `chmod 755` if necessary.) This sets up directory structures, creates logs, installs/updates themes, runs @@ -245,11 +237,11 @@ If you want some dummy data to play with, you can try loading the fixtures that the test suite uses into your development database. You can do this with: - ./script/load-sample-data + script/load-sample-data Next we need to create the index for the search engine (Xapian): - ./script/rebuild-xapian-index + script/rebuild-xapian-index If this fails, the site should still mostly run, but it's a core component so you should really try to get this working. @@ -281,7 +273,7 @@ tests to pass by setting `export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/libuuid.so.1`. Run the following to get the server running: - ./script/server --environment=development + script/server --environment=development By default the server listens on all interfaces. You can restrict it to the localhost interface by adding ` --binding=127.0.0.1` @@ -367,8 +359,8 @@ It is not recommended to run the website using the default Rails web server. There are various recommendations here: http://rubyonrails.org/deploy -We usually use Passenger / mod_rails. The file at `conf/httpd.conf` -contains the WhatDoTheyKnow settings. At a minimum, you should +We usually use Passenger / mod_rails. The file at `conf/httpd.conf-example` +gives you an example config file for WhatDoTheyKnow. At a minimum, you should include the following in an Apache configuration file: PassengerResolveSymlinksInDocumentRoot on @@ -509,19 +501,6 @@ various other things that can be automated for deployment. [https://github.com/mysociety/alaveteli/issues/128#issuecomment-1814845](this issue followup) for further discussion. -* **I'm getting lots of `SourceIndex.new(hash) is deprecated` errors when running the tests** - - The latest versions of rubygems contain a large number of noisy - deprecation warnings that you can't turn off individually. Rails - 2.x isn't under active development so isn't going to get fixed (in - the sense of using a non-deprecated API). So the only vaguely - sensible way to avoid this noisy output is to downgrade rubygems. - - For example, you might do this by uninstalling your - system-packaged rubygems, and then installing the latest rubygems - from source, and finally executing `sudo gem update --system - 1.6.2`. - * **I'm seeing `rake: command not found` when running the post install script The script uses `rake`. |