Help with setting this up on my local machine :)

[imalexsq]

I've been trying to set up the repo so I can play around with it. When I try using WEBrick and visit localhost:3000 the browser says "Waiting for localhost" and the server console doesn't show any requests. Is there something I need to do after getting the repo from github to make WEBrick serve it on my localhost?

I also tried using Apache and Passanger, which I got working, but when I visit localhost it tells me I don't have permission to access "/" I'm assuming Passange and Apache are looking for the production mode and Chris has it in development mode and this needs to be changed to work on my local mahcine. Is that correct?

I'll use either server, I just want to get it working, so any help will be much appreciated.

I really want to get started on this.

[SaqibS]

Strange - I got it working ok - I'm using Windows at the moment:

• Git clone
• cd into project directory
• bundle install
• Headache getting MySQL2 gem installed
• bundle install again
• rails server
• Allow it through the firewall
• After a few seconds http://localhost:3000 shows the index view

[stayhero]

I have no experience with Rails + Windows but I assume it should work, or at least throw some errors on the server console. Apache & Passenger should be overkill for development mode. But if you want to try, you can specify the Rails environment with Passenger/Apache in the apache configuration (http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache.html#rails_env).

How did you installed Ruby+Rails? Did you use http://railsinstaller.org/ ? Maybe it's, like SaqibS suggested, a local firewall issue? You could try to make it listen on another port for testing purpose, e.g. "rails s -p 80"?

[commonlisp]

It works for me. I'm on Snow Leopard MacOS X. Firewalls are the usual suspects.

[imalexsq]

I'm on Snow Leopard too... I'll fiddle with it tonight and get it working. I'd really like to get started on this, you guys need to tell me if you need anything else at this point.

We need a way to chat real time, we can use Skype or I found this app: https://grove.io/ Here is another task management app http://asana.com/ , take a look and tell me if it'll help us.

I've also been doing some research and found these to help us:

https://github.com/jamesgolick/timeline_fu - for the the activity stream, older https://github.com/grzegorzblaszczyk/rails3-activity-streams - another one, newer

https://github.com/jongilbraith/simple-private-messages - for private messaging, it would have to be able to send to and receive from regular emails

That's it for now, I'll add more info here as I find it.

[commonlisp]

One possible problem is that the database isn't connecting. One workaround is rails server -e development_local which tries to connect to a local MySQL so at least if it fails, it will fail quickly.

[imalexsq]

I actually got it working. I had to downgrade to mysql 5.1 and upgrade ruby to 1.9.3 and everything is working now :)