Frab is an open-source conference management system developed with Ruby on Rails. In this tutorial, we are going to walk through the installation process of Frab on OpenSUSE Latest.
Before we can start the installation, make sure that OpenSUSE Latest is installed, and you have root or sudo access to the server.
You'll also need to have the following packages installed on your system:
Open the terminal and login with your root or sudo account. Then, run the following commands to install Ruby, PostgreSQL, and Node.js:
zypper install ruby postgresql postgresql-server nodejs
Download Frab by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/frab/frab.git
Next, move to the newly created frab directory:
cd frab
Now, we need to install the required Ruby gems. Run the following command:
bundle install --path vendor/bundle
This will install all the required gems in the vendor/bundle directory.
Start the PostgreSQL service and login as the postgres user:
systemctl start postgresql
sudo -i -u postgres
Create a new PostgreSQL user for Frab:
createuser -P frab
Enter a secure password for the user when prompted.
Create a new database for Frab:
createdb -O frab frab_production
Exit the Postgres shell by typing exit.
Initialize the database tables by running the following command:
bundle exec rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
Frab configuration is done through environment variables. Create a new file called local_env.yml in the config directory:
cd config
cp example.env.yml local_env.yml
Open the local_env.yml file and configure the following environment variables:
RAILS_ENV: "production"
SECRET_KEY_BASE: "<use rake secret to generate a secure key>"
DATABASE_URL: "postgres://frab:<password>@localhost/frab_production"
FRAB_ADMIN_PASSWORD: "<enter a secure password for the admin user>"
Save and exit the file.
Start Frab using the following command:
bin/rails server -e production
Now, open your web browser and navigate to http://localhost:3000. You should see the Frab login page.
Use the admin user account credentials you specified in Step 4 to log in.
That's it! You've successfully installed and configured Frab on OpenSUSE Latest.
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