Step 1: Install Ruby
Download and install One-Click Ruby Installer for Windows.
http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/72085/rubyinstaller-1.8.7-p302.exe
Step 2: Install Rails
Now we can use the RubyGems package manager to download and install Rails 2.3.5(Note: Version should be 2.3.5),
Open a command window and run the command gem install rails -v=2.3.5 –remote
Step 3: Install MySQL
1. Download and install the “essential” version of the MySQL installer v5.0
http://downloads.mysql.com/archives/mysql-5.0/mysql-essential-5.0.90-win32.msi
2. Copy libmysql.dll from MySQL bin directory (usually C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.0\bin) to Ruby bin directory (usually C:\Ruby\bin)
Step 4: Setup Fedena
4.1. Download Fedena source code from GitHub. Extract the ZIP/TAR archive and save to a folder (say C:\Fedena22).
4.2. Now goto the fedena source directory in command line/prompt.
4.3. Run the command gem install mysql
4.4. Run command gem install declarative_authorization -v 0.5.1
4.5. Run command gem install searchlogic -v 2.4.27
4.6. Run command gem install i18n -v 0.4.2
4.7. Run command gem list (check for i18n version, if there is version 0.6.0, uninstall it, using command gem uninstall i18n )
4.8. Update the MySQL database details in config/database.yml (under “development:”)
4.9. Run the command rake db:create This will create the required databases.
4.10. Run command gem install win32-open3 to install win32-open gem.
4.11. Run the command rake db:migrate This will populate the database with required tables.
4.12. Finally, run the command ruby script/server This would start the server and it will be accessible at http://localhost:3000
4.13. If you want to run Fedena in production mode, run the command ruby script/server -e production For this, Production database details should be given in config/database.yml
Step 5: Install RMagick for Fedena
(This installation is needed to solve error when uploading student profile picture)
http://files.rubyforge.vm.bytemark.co.uk/rmagick/RMagick-2.12.0-ImageMagick-6.5.6-8-Q8.zip
5.1. Unzip ImageMagick-6.5.6-8-Q8.zip
5.2. Go to the unzip result folder and run ImageMagick-6.5.6-8-Q8-windows-dll.exe to install it.
5.3. Unzip RMagick-2.12.0.tar.gz
5.4. Copy the result, Rmagick-2.12.0 folder to C:\
5.5. Copy rmagick-2.12.0-x86-mswin32.gem to C:\RMagick-2.12.0
5.6. Navigate into folder C:\RMagick-2.12.0 using Windows Command Prompt
5.7. Run the command gem install rmagick --local
Step 6: Install wkhtmltopdf
This is to solve PDF creation problem ( error message: Create PDF Error: Bad wkhtmltopdf’s path )
6.1. Download the installer from http://wkhtmltopdf.googlecode.com/files/wkhtmltopdf-0.9.9-installer.exe
6.2. Install to folder c:\wkhtmltopdf
6.3. Edit c:\Fedena22\config\initializers\wicked_pdf.rb as follows:
#:wkhtmltopdf => '/home/foradian/sooraj/wkhtmltopdf-i386',
:wkhtmltopdf => 'c:\wkhtmltopdf\wkhtmltopdf.exe',
References:
http://latunyj.no-ip.org/2011/07/fedena-project-for-win32-platform/
http://projectfedena.org/install
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