BetterMeans is giving birth to a new kind of company. An Open Enterprise.
More details can be found at bettermeans.com and here bettermeans.org
git clone git@github.com:Bettermeans/bettermeans.git
#Rename database.yml.example to database.yml and set your local dev db u/p
bundle install
rake bootstrap
#for a larger data set on postgresql db, skip rake bootstrap and load from dump file. This recommended since it mirrors our production env.
psql bettermeans_development < db/pgdump.sql
That’s it. Now you’re ready to change the world. Here’s to making a dent in things together!
Make sure you install rubytree gem’s older version, not just the latest: rubytree -v 0.7.0 We’re running Ruby 1.8.7 in dev and production
If you encounter an error like “uninitialized constant ActiveSupport::Dependencies::Mutex”, then you need to get the correct rubygems version. Currently this is 1.3.7.
Platform workstream: bettermeans.com/projects/2/dashboard
IRC: #bettermeans irc.feenode.net
mailinglist: bettermeans@librelist.org (or build in workstream forum)
We are working on using bundler to wrap up the dev environment. To learn more about it check it out here: gembundler.com/
Our tests are broken. Help us write great tests and catch up on our testing environment!
capybara-webkit depends on a WebKit implementation from Qt as explained in github.com/thoughtbot/capybara-webkit/wiki/Installing-QT
The bettermeans projects is renamed to “LOCAL BETTERMEANS” to avoid confusion with the production dashboards.
All passwords in included dev db are set to: “password”
All private workstreams are removed.
All other the data in the dev database is real! Please respect our user’s privacy, and use the data in the db only for development purposes. (goes without saying I know)
You can find language specific translation groups at: www.transifex.net/projects/p/bettermeans
Attachments doesn’t work in dev environment
Logging in via the janrain plugin (e.g. google, twitter…etc) won’t work in dev environment (if you need to work with this, drop me a message, there’s an involved workaround)
To see activity on bettermeans, checkout the stats page: secure.bettermeans.com/admin/user_stats
Admin console is here (there are no visible links to it): localhost:3000/admin Login is admin/password
You shouldn’t need to. But if you do.…
To create a new dev db from production:
heroku db:pull # Load production database
export reset_safe=true
rake custom:trim_db
rake db:schema:dump
rake db:seed:dump MODELS=tracker,issue_statuss,enumeration,role,plan,setting
# Uses github.com/rhalff/seed_dump
To generate a pg_dump: pg_dump bettermeans_development -c -O -x -f db/pgdump.sql
Our codebase is based largely on an early fork of Redmine.
Redmine is open source and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL). All redmine code is Copyright © 2006-2011 Jean-Philippe Lang All non-redmine code is Copyright © Shereef Bishay, and is dual-licensed: you may use either the GNU General Public License v2 (GPL), or the MIT License (see www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php).
Thanks for joining us! May our work be used for the greater good of everyone.