Installing Tracks, Ruby-based GTD software

June 29, 2006

Quick start installation guide for Tracks GTD management software.

[todd@micos ~:263]$ cd ~/src/
[todd@micos src:264]$ curl -O http://www.rousette.org.uk/mint/pepper/orderedlist/downloads/download.php?file=http%3A//www.rousette.org.uk/projects/files/tracks-1.041.zip
[todd@micos src:265]$ cd ../projects/
[todd@micos projects:266]$ tar xzf ../src/tracks*

# Set up a suitable mysql database
[todd@micos projects:267]$ mysql -uroot -p
mysql> CREATE DATABASE tracks;
mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON tracks.* TO todd@localhost \
IDENTIFIED BY ‘password’ WITH GRANT OPTION;

# Setup config files
[todd@micos projects:268]$ cd tracks-1.041/config
[todd@micos config:269]$
[todd@micos config:270]$ cp database.yml.template database.yml
[todd@micos config:271]$ cp environment.rb.template environment.rb
# edit the production and development sections as appropriate)
[todd@micos config:272]$ emacs config database.yml
# Change the “SALT” directive to something unique
[todd@micos config:273]$ emacs config/environment.rb
[todd@micos config:274]$ cd ../
[todd@micos tracks-1.041:275]$ mv log.tmpl log

# From the main tracks directory
[todd@micos tracks-1.041:276]$ rake migrate
[todd@micos tracks-1.041:277]$ ruby script/server -e production

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