diff --git a/docs/INSTALL.md b/docs/INSTALL.md index ee2164847a2..b008977fe6f 100644 --- a/docs/INSTALL.md +++ b/docs/INSTALL.md @@ -1,31 +1,33 @@ # Discourse "Quick-and-Dirty" Install Guide -We have deliberately left this section lacking. From our FAQ: +It is still early times for Discourse. From our FAQ: > Discourse is brand new. Discourse is early beta software, and likely to remain so for many months. > Please experiment with it, play with it, give us feedback, submit pull requests – but any consideration > of fully adopting Discourse is for people and organizations who are eager to live on the bleeding and broken edge. -Discourse has two fairly decent install documents now. +Discourse has two fairly decent install documents now: - Our [**official Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS install document**][1] - [Unofficial Heroku install document][2] -- + Beyond that, if you are feeling extra *extra* adventurous you can try to set up following components manually: -- Postgres 9.1 +1. **Postgres 9.1+** - Enable support for HSTORE - Create a discourse database and seed it with a basic image -- Redis 2.6 -- Ruby 1.9.3 (we recommend 2.0.0-p195 or higher) - - Install all rubygems via bundler - - Edit database.yml and redis.yml and point them at your databases. - - Run `rake db:seed_fu` to add seed data - - Prepackage all assets using rake - - Run the Rails database migrations - - Run a sidekiq process for background jobs - - Run a clockwork process for enqueing scheduled jobs - - Run several Rails processes, preferably behind a proxy like Nginx. + +2. **Redis 2.6+** + +3. **Ruby 1.9.3+** (we recommend 2.0.0-p195 or higher) + - Install all rubygems via bundler + - Edit database.yml and redis.yml and point them at your databases. + - Run `rake db:seed_fu` to add seed data + - Prepackage all assets using rake + - Run the Rails database migrations + - Run a sidekiq process for background jobs + - Run a clockwork process for enqueing scheduled jobs + - Run several Rails processes, preferably behind a proxy like Nginx. [1]: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/INSTALL-ubuntu.md [2]: https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/docs/HEROKU.md