Meetable is a free and open-source event management application developed by the Indieweb community. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Meetable on macOS.
Meetable is built with Ruby on Rails, and therefore, requires Ruby to be installed on your system. To install Ruby, open your terminal and enter the following command:
brew install ruby
Meetable stores its data in a PostgreSQL database, so we need to install it on our system. To install PostgreSQL, enter the following command in your terminal:
brew install postgresql
Now we need to clone Meetable from Github. Navigate to the directory where you want to keep your Meetable files and run the following command:
git clone https://github.com/indieweb/meetable.git
Meetable requires certain gems to function correctly. To install all the necessary gems, navigate to the Meetable directory and run the following command:
bundle install
We need to create a new database for Meetable. To do this, run the following command in your terminal:
rake db:create db:schema:load
We can now start the server by running the following command:
rails server
With the server running, you can access Meetable by opening your web browser and navigating to http://localhost:3000/. You can log in as an administrator using the default username and password, which are admin@example.com and password, respectively.
Congratulations! You have now successfully installed Meetable on your macOS system.
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