Getting Started

Check/Install prerequisites

Ruby

1.8.6 (patchlevel 36 or higher)

Rails

2.0.2

Database

Any DBMS for rails to work on. We are developing webjourney on MySQL 5.0.X.

Others

• Ruby OpenID : https://rubyforge.org/projects/ruby-openid (test on 2.0.4)
• FeedNormalizer? : https://rubyforge.org/projects/feed-normalizer (test on 1.5.1)
• ImageScience? : http://seattlerb.rubyforge.org/ImageScience.html (test on 1.1.3)
• Ruby-Gettext : http://www.yotabanana.com/hiki/ruby-gettext.html (test on 1.90.0)

demo site gem list(For your information)

*** LOCAL GEMS ***

actionmailer (2.0.2)
actionpack (2.0.2)
activerecord (2.0.2)
activeresource (2.0.2)
activesupport (2.0.2)
cgi_multipart_eof_fix (2.5.0)
daemons (1.0.10)
fastthread (1.0.1)
feed-normalizer (1.5.1)
gem_plugin (0.2.3)
gettext (1.90.0)
hoe (1.5.1)
hpricot (0.6)
image_science (1.1.3)
mongrel (1.1.4)
passenger (1.0.4)
rails (2.0.2)
rake (0.8.1)
ruby-openid (2.0.4)
rubyforge (0.4.5)
RubyInline (3.6.7)
simple-rss (1.1)

Download

from SVN trunk

http://project.webjourney.org/webjourney/svn/trunk/

from Rubyforge

http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=2827&release_id=15874

Install WebJourney on your server

Checkout or download rails application package from rubyforge. Then move RAILS_ROOT and launch rake tasks as follows.

$ rake db:create
$ rake wj:install

You can get the output if you have installed successfully.

...(snip)...

==  StickyInstall: migrating ==================================================
==  StickyInstall: migrated (0.0000s) =========================================

setup 2 html stickies on th top page.

Now, webjourney framework and base components are installed and you can launch the rails with an application server such as mongrel or fastcgi.

Then start your server, access http://{yourdomain}/. The display is as follows:

Set administrator's account

Now, you can login your webjourney as admin with password. Go to [System]-[Account] from the menu navigaiton, then click the [Change Password] tab and save your admin password.

After that, you should change mail settings. Go to [System]-[SiteSetting?] and click the [Mail] tab.

You can change administrator's address in this menu, and configure your SMTP setting. If you want to check your settings is correct, click the test button to send a test mail to the administrator's address.

Add more components

WebJourney? is an component management system but it has a few "application" functions. It is also a framework for CMS. You can install extra/third-party components on his site.

Check the RAILS_ROOT/packages directory. At default, you can find two files,

misc.tar.gz

a sample component described in the tutorials 1, 2

blog.tar.gz

a blog application fully utilizing WebJourney? APIs.

These archive files can be directly installed. For example, you can install the blog component as follows:

$rake wj:component:install COMPONENT=blog