OSEM

The Open Source Event Manager. An event management tool tailored to Free and Open Source Software conferences.

Local Installation

Ruby and Ruby on Rails:

• Install Ruby v. 1.9.3, guide at https://gist.github.com/AstonJ/2896818 for CentOS. Debian has Ruby v. 1.9.3 packaged into the Testing suite already.
• Install Apache + mod_passenger, an handy guide is available at: http://nathanhoad.net/how-to-ruby-on-rails-ubuntu-apache-with-passenger

OSEM:

Dependencies:

• git clone https://github.com/openSUSE/osem.git on the directory you want Apache to serve the content from. (in our example, '/srv/http/osem.example.org')
• Run bundle install for getting all the needed gems.
• Install ImageMagick with either 'yum install ImageMagick' or 'apt-get install imagemagick'

Configuration files:

• cp config/config.yml.example config/config.yml
• cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml

Directories and permissions:

• cd into the root directory for your OSEM app
• mkdir storage cache system
• chown all the files and directories to the user that runs apache. (www-data on Ubuntu / Debian, apache on CentOS/Fedora/RHEL)

Database:

• bundle exec rake db:setup
• bundle exec rake db:migrate
• bundle exec rake db:seed

Apache:

• Create a new vhost that should look like this:

""" <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName osem.example.org DocumentRoot /srv/http/osem.example.org/public RailsEnv development

<Directory /srv/http/osem.example.org/public> # This relaxes Apache security settings. AllowOverride all # MultiViews must be turned off. Options -MultiViews """

• Connect to osem.example.org and register your first user. Make also sure that Postfix is installed and configured on the system for the confirmation mail to pass through.

Caveats

To make the first registered user an admin:

• rails console
• Check for available users with 'User.all'
• If your user's ID is [1] then do: "hero = User.find('1')"
• Give yourself admin status with "hero.role_ids=[3]"

If you have problems with rails console, try this in the Gemfile:

• gem uninstall rb-readline
• gem 'rb-readline', '~>0.4.2'

If you have problems with jquery-ui, try this in the Gemfile:

• gem "jquery-rails", "~> 2.3.0"

Or make the needed change as explained at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17830313/couldnt-find-file-jquery-ui.