Tracks

From Smop.co.uk

• download tracks from http://getontracks.org/
  • current release is broken - use GIT
• create database (mysql) and grant access
• edit config/database.yml:

production:
  adapter: mysql
  database: tracks
  host: .....
  username: tracks
  password: .....

• copy config/site.yml.tmpl to config/site.yml and edit:
  • salt: "....." (something random)
  • time_zone: "London"
  • subdir: "/tracks"
• edit config/environment.rb and uncomment:
  • ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = 'production'
• rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
• script/server -e production
  • now point webbrowser at localhost:3000 and create the admin user
  • edit preferences - set admin email address, your name

Running under apache

We can't just ProxyPass though as tracks passes lots of absolute "\foo" URLs back :-( Even editing config/environments/production.rb and setting this only fixes some:

• config.action_controller.asset_host = "https://smop.co.uk/tracks"

So let's run it under FastCGI instead:

• uncomment this line from config/environment.rb:
  • ENV['RAILS_ENV'] = 'production'

Apache config I've done below for a relative install.

Relative URL

Apache section:

Alias /tracks /var/tracks/public
<Directory /var/tracks/public>
  Options +ExecCGI +FollowSymlinks
  Order Allow,Deny
  Allow from all
  AllowOverride None
  #AllowOverride All
  RewriteEngine on
  RewriteBase /tracks

  #RewriteRule ^/?$ dispatch.fcgi?controller=todo&action=list [QSA]
  # Rewrite to check for Rails cached page
  RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ dispatch.fcgi [QSA,L]
</Directory>

• add to config/environments.rb:

 config.action_controller.relative_url_root = '/tracks'

• patch bundle-fu.rb using the patch from here and here
  • NB: ActionController::AbstractRequest.relative_url_root should be renamed ActionController::Base.relative_url_root
• rm ./public/stylesheets/cache/* ./public/javascripts/cache/*
• if you don't see this the cached CSS will be broken (you will see FILE READ ERROR in it)