Better installation docs about journal HOT 3 CLOSED

Looks like my installation still isn't perfect - sharing posts isn't working. It's not super ideal to mention in the install instructions that you need to call some ruby functions to get random bytes in base64 - maybe this could be done in shell instead?

Also, why do you need specifically 32/64 random bytes? Is this a Puma/Ruby/Rails thing, or something set by the application?

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All this being said... I absolutely love the application. Thank you for putting this out there! I'm definitely going to use it a lot.

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@charlesoblack Thanks for calling this stuff out! And glad you like the app. The install steps are by no means perfect - there is now a Docker install which might solve some of this pain.

yarn install should be removed from install steps now - that was an error on my part.

For the keys - they need to be a specific length. This is required by the openssl gem that is used for encrypting contents. They are base64 encoded just so they work as ENV vars.

As for everything else you called out, I'm not very familiar with setting up systemd and whatnot, would definitely accept a PR with more installation options!

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