Tracks is a free and open source web-based application that helps you track and manage tasks, projects, notes, and time.
In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing Tracks on your macOS computer.
To follow this tutorial, you will need:
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"
Tracks is written in Ruby and requires a Ruby interpreter to run. macOS comes with a pre-installed version of Ruby, but we recommend installing the latest version using Homebrew.
To install Ruby, run the following command in the terminal:
brew install ruby
This will install the latest version of Ruby and its dependencies.
Before we can install Tracks, we need to install some dependencies that it relies on.
To install the required dependencies, run the following command in the terminal:
brew install imagemagick mysql@5.7
This will install ImageMagick and MySQL 5.7.
To install Tracks, we will use the RubyGems package manager, which is included with Ruby.
To install Tracks, run the following command in the terminal:
sudo gem install tracks
This will install Tracks and its dependencies.
Before we can use Tracks, we need to configure it by creating a configuration file.
To create the configuration file, run the following command in the terminal:
tracks configure
This will prompt you to enter some information, such as the database credentials and the application secret.
Once you have entered the required information, the configuration file will be created.
Before we can use Tracks, we need to initialize the database by running the following command in the terminal:
tracks db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production
This will create the necessary tables and indexes in the database.
To start Tracks, run the following command in the terminal:
cd tracks && tracks server -e production
This will start Tracks in production mode.
You can now access Tracks by opening your web browser and navigating to http://localhost:3000.
In this tutorial, you learned how to install Tracks on your macOS computer. You also learned how to configure and start Tracks. Happy tracking!
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