This tutorial will guide you through the installation of Hackershare, a web application for storing bookmarks developed in Ruby on Rails, on NixOS Latest.
Step 1: Install the required dependencies
Before we can begin installing Hackershare, we first need to install some dependencies. These dependencies include Ruby, Node.js, and PostgreSQL.
To install these dependencies, open your terminal and run the following command:
sudo nix-env -i ruby nodejs postgresql
Step 2: Clone the Hackershare repository
Once we have installed the required dependencies, we now need to clone the Hackershare repository. Do this by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/hackershare/hackershare.git
Step 3: Install bundler and gems
Next, we need to install Bundler and the necessary gems for Hackershare. To do this, navigate to the Hackershare directory and run the following commands:
cd hackershare
gem install bundler # if bundler is not already installed
bundle install
Step 4: Create the database
Now that we have installed the necessary dependencies and gems, we need to create the database. To do this, run the following commands:
sudo -u postgres initdb -D /var/lib/postgresql/data
sudo systemctl start postgresql.service
sudo su postgres -c "createuser hackershare --createdb"
sudo su hackershare -c "createdb hackershare_development"
Step 5: Set up the environment variables
We need to set up some environment variables to configure Hackershare. Create a .env file in the Hackershare directory and add the following content:
# Database configuration
export DATABASE_URL='postgres://hackershare@localhost/hackershare_development'
# Secret key configuration
export SECRET_KEY_BASE='YOUR_SECRET_KEY_HERE' # Replace this with your own secret key
Step 6: Run the application
Finally, we can run the application using the following command:
rails server
You should now be able to access Hackershare by opening your browser and visiting http://localhost:3000.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed Hackershare on NixOS Latest!
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