How to Install Frab on NetBSD

Frab is a conference management software that is designed to help conference organizers manage the various aspects of organizing an event. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Frab on NetBSD.

Prerequisites

Before you install Frab, you need to have a few things installed and set up on your NetBSD system.

  1. NetBSD installed on your machine.
  2. A user account with sudo privileges.
  3. A web server installed and configured on your machine.
  4. A database server (such as PostgreSQL) installed and running on your machine.

Installing Frab

To install Frab on NetBSD, follow these steps:

  1. Open up a terminal window and log in as the user with sudo privileges.
  2. Update the package manager by running the following command:

sudo pkgin update

  1. Install the necessary packages by running the following command:

sudo pkgin install ruby ruby-bundler ruby-sqlite3

  1. Clone the Frab repository by running the following command:

git clone https://github.com/frab/frab.git

  1. Navigate to the Frab directory by running the following command:

cd frab

  1. Install the necessary gems by running the following command:

sudo bundle install --without development

  1. Edit the database configuration file by running the following command:

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

nano config/database.yml

  1. Modify the database configuration file to match your database configuration settings.

  2. Run the following commands to create the database and load the schema:

sudo bundle exec rake db:create

sudo bundle exec rake db:schema:load

  1. Start the application server by running the following command:

sudo bundle exec rails server

  1. You can now access Frab by browsing to http://localhost:3000 in your web browser.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Frab on NetBSD. By following these steps, you should have a working installation of Frab that you can use to manage your conferences.

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