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Re: Photographer.io is now open source

#21

Post by e12e » Mon, Jul 08, 2013, 2:31 PM UTC

Oh, this is very nice -- maybe what I need to finally kick the tires of ruby/rails.

What is the minimum to get this up and running locally for test/dev? I know this isn't exactly meant for ruby/rails newbies -- but according to a few searches, (and the readme) it looks like I need:

    * postgresql 9+
    * redis
    * memcached
    * solr (is it needed for test/dev?)
    * ruby 2.0 and rails 4.0

It looks like a sane way to get a rails 4 dev environment for the local user (on a recent Debian system) is:

    \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --rails

So, with the various servers installed, should the line above, paired with a checkout of the repo allow me to do:

    rails serve

And have a look at a local install of this thing?

Re: Photographer.io is now open source

#22

Post by robotmay » Mon, Jul 08, 2013, 9:15 PM UTC

e12e wrote: post #21

Oh, this is very nice -- maybe what I need to finally kick the tires of ruby/rails. What is the minimum to get this up and running locally for test/dev? I know this isn't exactly meant for ruby/rails newbies -- but according to a few searches, (and the readme) it looks like I need: * postgresql 9+ * redis * memcached * solr (is it needed for test/dev?) * ruby 2.0 and rails 4.0 It looks like a sane way to get a rails…

Sorry for the slow reply! I somehow totally missed this one.

I've just pushed up what are hopefully some useful instructions on getting it running, so the README should now be a little more helpful: https://github.com/afternoonrobot/photographer-io#developmen...

It's not entirely straightforward to set up, and I must confess that it has been a while since I did it from scratch. Assuming you already have Ruby installed, then you would definitely need the following: PostgreSQL 9+ (probably 9.2+), Redis, Memcached. Solr probably won't break anything if it doesn't exist, except for the search.

If you have any trouble getting it going or need a hand, give me a shout on Twitter (@robotmay) and I'll open up an IRC channel to help you through it. I might need to do that anyway actually, as I suspect there'll be a few people with issues :D

Re: Photographer.io is now open source

#23

Post by jscheel » Mon, Jul 08, 2013, 9:19 PM UTC

Congrats on making the decision to open source this. I'm interested to see how the community will help drive the development of new features. As I'm sure everyone here knows, saying "no" is crucial. It may be a lot harder to say no when a pull request is sitting in your inbox. I would suggest spending some time hammering out a wiki for contribution guidelines, and a development roadmap. I just signed up for an account, and am very excited to see how this progresses!

Edit: One other thing - right now, invites get you more uploads. Depending on how heavy-handed you want to be about good contributions, it might help to require the invitee to upload at least one picture or recommend at least 3 pictures before the inviter gets their additional uploads. That might slow the growth too much though. It's definitely a balance.