Redmine on Arch Linux

Installing redmine seems a bit "clunky" to me, but thats probably because I've never used ruby jems before. I've put down steps involved in getting it working, in an NON-PRODUCTION enviroment (I.e not secure, just quick and dirty to get it running fast). This worked with release 1.2.1, and it installs mysql, but redmine works off other databases too, so modify to your needs.

First up, install all the prerequisits.

pacman -S rubygems

gem install -v=0.4.2 i18n

gem install rack -v=1.1.0

pacman -S mysql

/etc/rc.d/mysqld start

/usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password 'root'

pacman -S make

gem install mysql

Download and unpack the release. All the configuration files are in ./config/, so you need to go there next. We just change a few things in the example configs, so move them into place.




mv database.yml.example database.yml

mv configuration.yml.example configuration.yml

Edit database.yml, and change the top to this.




production:

adapter: mysql

database: redmine

host: localhost

username: root

password: root

encoding: utf8




Next, you have to edit the environment.rb file. Within the Rails::Initializer.run do |config| section,

add this line:




config.action_controller.session = { :key => "_myapp_session", :secret => "$t =>"ee7f29f2bb6f5006ff0674b7838e5dd7" }

Finally, populate the database.




RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate

RAILS_ENV=production rake redmine:load_default_data

And now your ready to go. Start the server and browse to http://localhost:30003

The default login is admin/admin.




script/server -e production