Frab is a free conference management system designed to help you organize and manage conferences, events or congresses.
Here's how you can install Frab on NixOS Latest:
Before you start the installation process, you need to ensure that the following prerequisites are met:
First, you'll need to install NixPkgs, which is a collection of over 50,000 package definitions for the Nix package manager. To install it, run:
$ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.nix
Next, you'll need to install Ruby, which is required by Frab. To install Ruby, run:
$ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.ruby
Frab requires a PostgreSQL database to operate. You can install it by running:
$ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.postgresql
Next, create a new PostgreSQL database and a user that Frab will use to access it:
$ sudo -u postgres createdb frab
$ sudo -u postgres createuser --pwprompt frab
Now you can install Frab itself. To do so, run:
$ nix-env -iA nixpkgs.frab
Finally, you'll need to initialize the Frab database. To do so, run:
$ sudo -u frab frab rake db:create db:migrate db:seed
Now you can start Frab itself. To do so, run:
$ sudo -u frab frab rails s
Access Frab's web interface by pointing your browser to http://localhost:3000/.
And that's it! You now have a fully functioning installation of Frab on your NixOS Latest system. Enjoy!
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