Was anyone able to install diaspora?

[Smith Family]

I am confused about what happened today with diaspora. Did they release something that we can install and start using or did they release something that they want everyone to be able touch up as part of the "open source" thing? I am pretty disappointed with the release today, I guess I was expecting an easy install. I even bought some space on shared server as I prepared for today. luckily it only costs a couple of bucks a month.


Did anyone install it? an you provide some feedback on how it works, if it is worth looking into and anything else you want to divulge about it. Thanks.

[peterh]

Instructions are at https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora

I got as far as "Run the app server" when I ran into "Could not find rake-0.8.7 in any of the sources".

update:
had to install rake separately. still having the problem.

Another update:
Where the instructions say 'bundle install', use 'sudo bundle install'

update:
not sure about above. Now mongodb starts, yet isn't running an instant later.
--
I had mongodb installed from before from default ubuntu sources, apparently a broken install.

confusion running the client, trying the test suite.
...
tests passed.

figured out login, https://localhost:3000/login
looks like I have a working install.

[jonny colfax]

Congrats. That's at least 2 successful here on the forum now.

[KOH]

figured out login, https://localhost:3000/login
looks like I have a working install.

That is great. Congrats.

[Mollusk]

Just to note that rake is a gem and after you have rubygems installed you can run

sudo gem install rake

This should also work with bundler.

[jhc8]

I finally got mine to work! Im running it on my own computer instead of website. Could that be why my username is [email protected]? And I also get an error when I try to request a friend.

[jonny colfax]

Edit: I was going to ask you to post the solution to your previous issue but I see you posted to the other thread.

[jhc8]

@jhc8, do you mind telling us what action got you past your previous install issue? Might help others who get stuck with the same errors.

If we post errors, we should do our best to post the solutions when we get past them.

Sorry I was going to post but I got a little side tracked. Anyways while in the diaspora directory

cd diaspora

I simply typed

sudo apt-get install ruby1.8-dev ruby1.8 ri1.8 rdoc1.8 irb1.8

after that I entered

sudo apt-get install libxlt-dev libxml12-dev

then I entered

sudo gem install nokogiri
sudo gem install pubsubhubbub
sudo gem install rest-client
sudo gem intall redgreen

then I enterted

sudo bundle install

after that I entered

sudo bundle exec thin start

and was able to access Diaspora via https://localhost:3000/login although I have yet to still get

rake db:seed:tom

to work. If anyone has gotten past that part please update us on what you did.

[jonny colfax]

Yes, I got past the server start once then failed on the rake, each time with an error saying certain files weren't checked out and asking me to bundle install again. Then as I was trying to fix the rake issue, the server start broke again.

I have some ideas what it might be. Thanks for posting your progress. I had to stop for work. Hope to have mine up soon though.

[jhc8]

Youre welcome and I got rake to work by using

sudo rake db:seed:tom