Local Food Nodes is an online platform that connects farmers, producers, and consumers who are interested in local food production. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Local Food Nodes on your Manjaro system.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following installed on your system:
The first thing we need to do is install some dependencies required for installing Local Food Nodes. Open up your terminal emulator and run the following command:
sudo pacman -S curl git postgresql postgis
This command will install the necessary packages required for Local Food Nodes.
Next, we need to clone the Local Food Nodes repository. Run the following command in your terminal emulator:
git clone https://github.com/localfoodnodes/localfoodnodes.git
This command will download the Local Food Nodes code from Github.
Local Food Nodes is built on Ruby on Rails, so we need to install Ruby and Bundler. Run the following command in your terminal emulator:
sudo pacman -S ruby bundler
This command will install the necessary Ruby and Bundler packages.
Navigate to the Local Food Nodes directory by running the following command:
cd localfoodnodes
Then, install the necessary gems using Bundler:
bundle install
This command will install all the necessary gems for Local Food Nodes.
Local Food Nodes requires a PostgreSQL database. We need to create a new database and configure the database.yml file. Run the following commands:
sudo -u postgres createuser -s localfoodnodes
sudo -u postgres createdb -O localfoodnodes localfoodnodes_development
cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
Then, open up the database.yml file in a text editor and update the username and password fields with your PostgreSQL username and password.
Next, we need to run the database migration. Run the following command in your terminal emulator:
rake db:migrate
This command will create the necessary tables in the database.
Finally, we can start Local Food Nodes by running the following command:
rails server
This command will start the Local Food Nodes server on http://localhost:3000.
That's it! You have successfully installed Local Food Nodes on your Manjaro system. You can now start exploring the platform and connecting with local farmers, producers, and consumers.
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