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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS FOR DEPLOYING RENDEZVIEW
updated 4/28/09

This file will guide you in launching the 
Rendezview application from your local machine.
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Before proceeding, you will need to have the following software installed*

For Windows:
Ruby 1.8.7
MySQL
Rails 2.1.0
Mozilla Firefox

For Mac:
MAMP server package
Ruby 1.8.7
Rails 2.1.0
Mozilla Firefox

For Linux:
LAMP server package
Ruby 1.8.7
Rails 2.1.0
Mozilla Firefox

*these are the recommended programs, but you may use other programs to run 
the application.


LAUNCHING THE SERVER

1. Open up a command line and navigate into the 'rendezview' directory. 
2. Type 'rake db:create' and press Enter.
3. Type 'rake db:migrate' and press Enter. 
(These commands will populate your MySQL database with the necessary fields)
4. Type 'script/server' 
(This will launch Rendezview on port number 3000 by default)

Open Firefox and type 'http://localhost:3000' in your address bar. 
The application should be running and ready to use!


OTHER NOTES

If you are getting an error about your rails/gem version, 
check the environment.rb file in the config directory. 
Make sure that RAILS_GEM_VERSION = '2.1.0'

Certain packages have their own web/mail servers installed -
we recommend using the WEBrick server.

On Windows, if you get the mysql error when trying to migrate,
download http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk/InstantRails-win/InstantRails/mysql/bin/libmySQL.dll
and put that in C:/ruby/bin/mysql 5.1