How to Install Calagator on POP! OS Latest

Calagator is an open-source event management system designed for communities. It is a Ruby-on-Rails application that can be installed on any Linux-based system. In this tutorial, you will learn how to install Calagator on POP! OS Latest.

Prerequisites

Before you start installing Calagator on your system, you must have the following prerequisites installed on your system:

1. POP! OS latest version installed on your system
2. Root access to the system
3. Ruby 2.6 or higher
4. RubyGems package manager
5. Git version control system
6. MySQL or PostgreSQL database server

Step 1: Install Required Packages

The first step is to install the packages required for Calagator to run smoothly on your system. You can do this by running the following command in your terminal:

sudo apt install build-essential libssl-dev libreadline-dev zlib1g-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libpq-dev curl git

Step 2: Install Ruby

Calagator requires Ruby 2.6 or higher to run. On POP! OS, you can install it with the following command:

sudo apt-get install ruby-full

Step 3: Install RubyGems

RubyGems is a package manager for Ruby programming language. To install RubyGems, run the following command:

sudo apt-get install rubygems

Step 4: Install Rails

Calagator is a Ruby-on-Rails application, and therefore you need to install Rails to run Calagator. You can install Rails with the following command:

sudo gem install rails -v 6.0.0

Step 5: Install Calagator

Now it is time to install Calagator. To download Calagator, use the following command:

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

Once the download is complete, change into the Calagator directory:

cd calagator/

Step 6: Install dependencies

Before you can start using Calagator, you need to install the required dependencies. You can do this by running the following command:

bundle install

Step 7: Configure the Database

Calagator uses PostgreSQL or MySQL as the database management system. You can choose either of the two databases. In this tutorial, we will use MySQL.

To install MySQL, use the following command:

sudo apt install mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev

Once MySQL is installed, start the MySQL service:

sudo service mysql start

Create a new database for Calagator:

mysql -u root -p

Enter your root password when prompted, and then enter the following commands:

CREATE DATABASE calagator;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON calagator.* TO 'calagator'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;

Replace password with your desired password.

Edit the config/database.yml file with the following configuration:

default:
  adapter: mysql2
  encoding: utf8mb4
  pool: <%= ENV.fetch("RAILS_MAX_THREADS") { 5 } %>
  username: calagator
  password: password
  host: localhost
  database: calagator
  port: 3306

Replace password with your MySQL password.

Step 8: Initialize the Database

To initialize the database, you can simply run the following command:

rake db:migrate

Step 9: Start the Calagator Server

Now, Calagator is ready to be started. Use the following command to start the server:

rails server

Once Calagator is running, you can access it by opening your web browser and typing localhost:3000 or 127.0.0.1:3000.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed Calagator on POP! OS Latest.

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