Thredded is an open-source forum software for Ruby on Rails. It is designed to be easy to use and customizable. In this tutorial, we will go through the steps to install Thredded on Windows 10.
Before we begin, make sure you have the following installed on your system:
The first step is to install Ruby on Rails. To do this, open your command prompt and enter the following command:
gem install rails
This will install the latest version of Rails.
Next, we need to clone the Thredded project from Github. To do this, we will use the following command:
git clone git://github.com/thredded/thredded.git
This will clone the Thredded project into a directory called "thredded" in your current working directory.
Navigate into the directory using the following command:
cd thredded
Once you are in the directory, run the following command to install the necessary gems:
bundle install
This will install all the gems that Thredded requires.
Thredded uses SQLite3 as the default database. To set up the database, run the following commands:
cp config/database.example.yml config/database.yml
This will create the config/database.yml file. Next, run the following commands:
bundle exec rake db:setup
bundle exec rake db:migrate
bundle exec rake db:seed
This will set up the database, migrate any necessary changes, and seed it with some default data.
Now that everything is set up, let's start the server! Use the following command to start the server:
bundle exec rails server
This will start the server on port 3000.
Open up your favorite web browser, and navigate to http://localhost:3000. You should now see the Thredded homepage!
Congratulations, you have successfully installed Thredded on Windows 10!
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