Readflow is an open-source self-hosted RSS feed reader. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation process of Readflow on the latest version of OpenSUSE. Before we begin, ensure that you have a running version of OpenSUSE and an SSH client installed on your local machine.
The first step is to update your system to ensure that all packages are up to date. You can update your system by running the following command:
sudo zypper update
To install Readflow on OpenSUSE, we need to install some dependencies. These dependencies can be installed by running the following command in the terminal:
sudo zypper install ruby-devel sqlite3-devel sqlite3 gcc gcc-c++ git nodejs14 npm
By default, OpenSUSE comes with Ruby installed, but we need to install Ruby Gems to install the required dependencies for Readflow. You can install Ruby Gems by running the following command
sudo zypper install rubygems
Bundler is a package manager for RubyGems. We need to install bundler to install the dependencies for Readflow. You can install bundler using the following command:
gem install bundler
Next, we need to clone the Readflow repository from Github. The following command will clone the repository into a folder named readflow.
git clone https://github.com/1e1/readflow.git readflow
After cloning the Readflow repository, navigate to the readflow directory using the cd command and install the Readflow dependencies by running the following command:
bundle install --without development test
There is a file named config/database.yml.sample in the project directory. We need to copy this file to config/database.yml using the following command:
cp config/database.yml.sample config/database.yml
Next, we need to configure config/database.yml. Open config/database.yml with a text editor of your choice and ensure that it looks like the following:
default: &default
adapter: sqlite3
database: db/production.sqlite3
pool: 5
timeout: 5000
development:
<<: *default
database: db/development.sqlite3
test:
<<: *default
database: db/test.sqlite3
production:
<<: *default
database: <%= ENV['DATABASE_URL'] %>
After configuring config/database.yml, we can create the database. The following command will create the production.sqlite3 database in the db folder.
bundle exec rails db:create RAILS_ENV=production
After creating the database, we must run the following command to migrate the database schema:
bundle exec rails db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
Finally, we can start Readflow by running the following command:
RAILS_ENV=production bundle exec rails server --binding=0.0.0.0
That's it! You have successfully installed and configured Readflow on OpenSUSE. Open a web browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000 to access the Readflow application.
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