Private Label Weekly - a Lobste.rs clone
OTHER License
###Lobsters Rails Project
This is the source code to the site operating at https://lobste.rs. It is a Rails 4 codebase and uses a SQL (MariaDB in production) backend for the database and Sphinx for the search engine.
While you are free to fork this code and modify it (according to the license) to run your own link aggregation website, this source code repository and bug tracker are only for the site operating at lobste.rs. Please do not use the bug tracker for support related to operating your own site unless you are contributing code that will also benefit lobste.rs.
####Contributing bugfixes and new features
Please see the CONTRIBUTING file.
####Initial setup
Install Ruby. This code has been tested with Ruby versions 1.9.3, 2.0.0, 2.1.0, and 2.3.0.
Checkout the lobsters git tree from Github
$ git clone git://github.com/jcs/lobsters.git
$ cd lobsters
lobsters$
Run Bundler to install/bundle gems needed by the project:
lobsters$ bundle
Create a MySQL (other DBs supported by ActiveRecord may work, only MySQL and
MariaDB have been tested) database, username, and password and put them in a
config/database.yml
file:
development:
adapter: mysql2
encoding: utf8mb4
reconnect: false
database: lobsters_dev
socket: /tmp/mysql.sock
username: *username*
password: *password*
test:
adapter: sqlite3
database: db/test.sqlite3
pool: 5
timeout: 5000
Load the schema into the new database:
lobsters$ rake db:schema:load
Create a config/initializers/secret_token.rb
file, using a randomly
generated key from the output of rake secret
:
Lobsters::Application.config.secret_key_base = 'your random secret here'
(Optional, only needed for the search engine) Install Sphinx. Build Sphinx config and start server:
lobsters$ rake ts:rebuild
Define your site's name and default domain, which are used in various places,
in a config/initializers/production.rb
or similar file:
class << Rails.application
def domain
"example.com"
end
def name
"Example News"
end
end
Rails.application.routes.default_url_options[:host] = Rails.application.domain
Put your site's custom CSS in app/assets/stylesheets/local
.
Seed the database to create an initial administrator user and at least one tag:
lobsters$ rake db:seed
created user: test, password: test
created tag: test
Run the Rails server in development mode. You should be able to login to
http://localhost:3000
with your new test
user:
lobsters$ rails server
In production, set up crontab or another scheduler to run regular jobs:
*/20 * * * * cd /path/to/lobsters && env RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rake ts:index > /dev/null
*/5 * * * * cd /path/to/lobsters && env RAILS_ENV=production sh -c 'bundle exec ruby script/mail_new_activity; bundle exec ruby script/post_to_twitter'