README

Author: Ralph Edge
Blog: http://railsonedge.blogspot.com
Portfolio: http://www.ralphedge.com

  Video-App is a YouTube-like site written in rails.  It converts video to flash(ffmpeg) and plays videos using FlowPlayer(an open-source flash video player).  Has Pagination(will_paginate), Tagging/Tag Cloud(acts_as_taggable_on_steroids), User Authentication(authlogic), Video Replies, and Video Thumbnails.  Video conversion is done in a seperate process, using the Spawn plugin.  Uses Rails Version 2.2.2...you can change the Rails version it uses in config/environment.rb

To Install: (let me know if I need to add anything to this)
  *Download the code: 

    git clone git://github.com/balgarath/video-app.git
    cd video-app

  *(Optional) switch to branch 0.2:  

    git fetch origin 0.2:0.2
    git checkout 0.2
    
  *Edit your config/databases.yml
  
  *Install will_paginate - if you don't have it already
    sudo gem install will_paginate
  
  *install ffmpeg - you may need to download and compile from source - http://www.ffmpeg.org/download.html
  
    In Ubuntu:
      sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
      
  *create and migrate database
    rake db:create
    rake db:migrate
    
  *launch server
    ./script/server