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rails 3.1 works only with gitolite sqlite as default a database

Requirements

• ruby 1.9.2
• sqlite
• git
• gitolite
• ubuntu/debian
• pygments lib - sudo easy_install pygments

Install Project

git clone git://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq.git

cd gitlabhq/

# install this library first
sudo pip install pygments
sudo apt-get install python-dev

# give your user access to remove git repo
# Ex.
#   If you are going to use user 'gitlabhq' for rails server
#   gitlabhq ALL = (git) NOPASSWD: /bin/rm" | sudo tee -a /etc/sudoers
#
echo "USERNAME ALL = (git) NOPASSWD: /bin/rm" | sudo tee -a /etc/sudoers

sudo gem install bundler

bundle install --without development test

bundle exec rake db:setup RAILS_ENV=production

# create admin user
# login....admin@local.host
# pass.....5iveL!fe
bundle exec rake db:seed_fu RAILS_ENV=production

Install gitolite (with repo umask 0007), edit config/gitlab.yml and start server

bundle exec rails s -e production

Create git user

sudo adduser \
  --system \
  --shell /bin/sh \
  --gecos 'git version control' \
  --group \
  --disabled-password \
  --home /home/git \
  git


# Add your user to git group
usermod -a -G git gitlabhq_user_name 

Install Gitolite

!!! IMPORTANT !!! Gitolite umask should be 0007 so users from git group has read/write access to repo

Install ruby 1.9.2

sudo aptitude install git-core curl gcc checkinstall libxml2-dev libxslt-dev sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libreadline5-dev libc6-dev libssl-dev libmysql++-dev make build-essential zlib1g-dev

wget http://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.9/ruby-1.9.2-p290.tar.gz

tar xfvz ruby-1.9.2-p290.tar.gz

cd ruby-1.9.2-p290
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall -D

sudo gem update --system

echo "gem: --no-rdoc --no-ri" > ~/.gemrc

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