Boxroom is a Rails 3.1 application that aims to be a simple interface for sharing files in a web browser. To make this possible the application lets users create folders and upload and download files. For admins it is possible to create users, groups and the CRU/D rights these groups have on folders.

Website:
http://boxroom.rubyforge.org/

Bug reports and feature requests:
https://github.com/mischa78/boxroom/issues/new

The requirements for running Boxroom are:

• Ruby 1.8.7 or Ruby 1.9.2
• Rails 3.1.1
• A database (e.g. MySQL or SQLite)

Follow the these steps:

1. Extract boxroom.zip and cd to the newly created folder
2. Update your bundle: $ bundle
3. Create a database and schema: $ rake db:migrate
4. Start the server: $ rails server
5. Point your browser to http://localhost:3000/
6. Enjoy!

If you want to display a progress bar during uploading you will need to use either Apache/Passenger or Nginx in combination with a special module. For more information, please visit http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpUploadProgressModule or https://github.com/drogus/apache-upload-progress-module

Boxroom sends email when users want to reset their password or when they share files. For this to work, depending on your environment, you have op to open config/environments/development.rb or config/environments/production.rb, uncomment the following lines and fill in the correct settings of your mail server:

# config.action_mailer.delivery_method = :smtp
# config.action_mailer.smtp_settings = {
#   :address => 'mailhost',
#   :port => 587,
#   :user_name => 'user_name',
#   :password => 'password',
#   :authentication => 'plain'
# }

In order for Boxroom to send a user to the correct URL for either downloading a shared file or for resetting passwords, you have to uncomment and update the following:

# config.action_mailer.default_url_options = { :host => 'localhost:3000' }

You also have to choose a from address for the emails that will be sent. You can do this by uncommenting and adjusting the following line:

# ActionMailer::Base.default :from => 'Boxroom <[email protected]>'

Thanks to Rob Halff, Marcus Ilgner and Jessica Marcon Boxroom is now available in Dutch, German and Italian.

English is the default. To change the language, open config/application.rb and change the following line:

config.i18n.default_locale = :en

to:

config.i18n.default_locale = :nl # Dutch
config.i18n.default_locale = :de # German
config.i18n.default_locale = :it # Italian

It would be great to have many more languages. I am waiting for your pull requests! ;-)

If you encounter an issue with Boxroom where downloaded files are always empty, it may help to uncomment the following line in config/environments/production.rb:

# config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header = 'X-Accel-Redirect'

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