Local installation
Before installing Consul Democracy and having it up and running make sure you all prerequisites installed.
First, clone the Consul Democracy Github repository and enter the project folder:
Install the Ruby version we need with your Ruby version manager. Here are some examples:
Check we're using the Ruby version we've just installed:
Install Bundler:
Install the required gems using Bundler:
Copy the environment example configuration files inside new readable ones:
And setup database credentials with your consul
user in your new database.yml
file.
Run the following Rake tasks to create and fill your local database with the minimum data needed to run the application:
Check everything is fine by running the test suite (beware it might take more than an hour):
Now you have all set, run the application:
Congratulations! Your local Consul Democracy application will be running now at http://localhost:3000
.
In case you want to access the local application as admin, a default user verified and with admin permissions was created by the seed files with username admin@consul.dev
and password 12345678
.
If you need an specific user to perform actions such as voting without admin permissions, a default verified user is also available with username verified@consul.dev
and password 12345678
.
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