Foodsoft is a web-based software application designed for food cooperatives. The software allows food cooperatives to manage their inventory, invoices, and membership data.
In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps required to install Foodsoft on an Ubuntu Server.
Before installing Foodsoft, ensure that you have the following requirements:
Before installing Foodsoft, we need to install the necessary dependencies. Run the following command in your terminal:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev build-essential libmysqlclient-dev libxslt-dev libxml2-dev libmagickwand-dev libsqlite3-dev
Once the installation is complete, we will install the Bundler gem, which is the Ruby package manager that will be used to install Foodsoft's dependencies. Run the following command:
sudo gem install bundler
Next, we need to clone the Foodsoft repository.
git clone https://github.com/foodcoops/foodsoft.git
Change into the foodsoft directory and run bundler to install all of the dependencies:
cd foodsoft
bundle install
Before we can start using Foodsoft, we need to create a database and grant privileges to a user.
Log into MySQL as the root user:
sudo mysql -u root -p
Create a new database and user with the following commands:
CREATE DATABASE foodsoft;
CREATE USER 'foodsoft_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON foodsoft.* TO 'foodsoft_user'@'localhost';
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Replace "password" with a secure password of your choice.
Copy the example configuration files:
cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
cp config/secrets.yml.example config/secrets.yml
Edit the database.yml file with your MySQL credentials.
We need to run the database migrations to create the necessary tables:
bundle exec rake db:create db:migrate
We are almost done! Start the server with the following command:
rails server -b 0.0.0.0 -e production
You can now access Foodsoft by opening the following URL in a web browser:
http://your_server_ip:3000
You have successfully installed Foodsoft on your Ubuntu Server!
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