Setup Instructions (Red Hat 7)

The instructions below were provided by a community member (@smoebot) and are not supported. Questions or issues can be reported here: https://github.com/Netflix/Scumblr/issues/128

Install prerequisites

From the command line run the following commands:

Set to development Environment

export RAILS_ENV=development

Install packages

sudo yum update
sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++ make zlib-devel openssl-libs openssl-devel readline-devel libyaml-devel sqlite-devel sqlite libxml2 libxml2-devel libxslt libxslt-devel libcurl-devel libffi-devel ImageMagick-devel ImageMagick redis linux-headers-generic

Install Bandit for python static code analysis (optional). Run the following from the command line

sudo yum install python-devel python-pip

Setup Ruby

Install rbenv

git clone https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv.git ~/.rbenv
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL

git clone https://github.com/rbenv/ruby-build.git ~/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/plugins/ruby-build/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL

Install ruby 2.3.1

rbenv install 2.3.1
rbenv global 2.3.1

Install gems

gem install bundler --no-ri --no-rdoc
gem install sidekiq --no-ri --no-rdoc

Install Rails

sudo yum install nodejs

gem install rails -v 4.2.6 --no-ri --no-rdoc
rbenv rehash

Install Postgres

Run the following commands

wget http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/yum/InstallPGDGRepoRPM.sh
./InstallPGDGRepoRPM.sh

Follow the instructions to install the temporary repo, then after it is complete, install packages

sudo yum update

sudo yum install postgresql95 postgresql95-server postgresql95-libs postgresql95-contrib postgresql95-devel postgresql-devel-9.2.18-1.el7.x86_64

Setup a database user

sudo -i -u postgres createuser scumblr -s

Setup a database password

sudo -u postgres psql
postgres=# \password scumblr

Type '\q' to quit

Get scumblr

Run the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/Netflix/Scumblr.git
cd Scumblr
bundle install

You might have issues executing files from the /tmp directory, I got around it with: sudo mount -o remount,exec /tmp

then, after you're done with the install sudo mount -o remount,noexec /tmp

Setup Database

Edit the config/database.yml to point to your database. Example (update to match your username, password, host and database name):

  development:
      adapter: postgresql
      host: localhost
      port: 5432
      username: scumblr
      password: scumblr
      database: scumblr_dev
      pool: 5
      timeout: 5000

Initialize the database

sudo /usr/pgsql-9.5/bin/postgresql95-setup initdb

Start postgresql

sudo service postgresql-9.5 start

Set postgresql to start on boot

chkconfig postgresql-9.5 on

Ensure that postgresql is in the list of services enabled

systemctl list-unit-files

There may be auth issues (IDENT failure) with getting rake to create the database, if so change the METHOD for the connection being used from 'ident' to 'md5'

sudo nano /var/lib/pgsql/9.5/data/pg_hba.conf

Create the database

rake db:create
rake db:structure:load

Initial Setup Setup an admin user

rails c

In the console:

user = User.new
user.email = "<Valid email address>"
user.password = "<Password>"
user.password_confirmation = "<Password>"
user.admin = true
user.save

Type "quit" to exit the console

Add an iptables rule to allow inbound connections

sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 3000 -j ACCEPT

Start Scumblr From the command line from the Scumblr root folder:

redis-server &
bundle exec sidekiq -l log/sidekiq.log &
bundle exec rails s -b 0.0.0.0 &

Now connect to your server on port 3000 (http://localhost:3000 in a browser if running on your local machine).

There you go! Hopefully you have Scumblr running on Red Hat now. If not, then hopefully these steps can help to troubleshoot where it went wrong