This is the quite sad source code to the ghost town at https://lobste.rs. It is a Rails codebase and uses a SQL (MariaDB in production) backend for the database.
You are free to use this code to start your own sister site because the code is available under a permissive license (3-clause BSD). We welcome bug reports and code contributions that help use improve lobste.rs. As a volunteer project we're reluctant to take on work that's not useful to our site, so please understand if we don't want to adopt your custom feature.
We'd love to have your help. Please see the CONTRIBUTING file for details. If you have questions, there is usually someone in our chat room who's familiar with the code.
Use the steps below for a local install or lobsters-ansible for our production deployment config. There's an external project docker-lobsters if you want to use Docker.
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Install the Ruby version specified in .ruby-version
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Checkout the lobsters git tree from Github
$ git clone [email protected]:lobsters/lobsters.git $ cd lobsters lobsters$
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Install Nodejs, needed (or other execjs) for uglifier
Fedora: sudo yum install nodejs Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install nodejs OSX: brew install nodejs
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Create a MariaDB (other DBs supported by ActiveRecord may work, only MySQL and MariaDB have been tested) database, username, and password and put them in a
config/database.ymlfile. You will also want a separate database for running tests:development: adapter: mysql2 encoding: utf8mb4 reconnect: false database: lobsters_dev socket: /tmp/mysql.sock username: *dev_username* password: *dev_password* test: adapter: mysql2 encoding: utf8mb4 reconnect: false database: lobsters_test socket: /tmp/mysql.sock username: *test_username* password: *test_password*
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Run
bin/setupto install dependencies and set up dblobsters$ bin/setup
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mysql2gem on macOS, you seeld: library not found for -l-lpthreadin the output, see this solution for a fix. You might also seeld: library not found for -lsslif you're using macOS 10.4+ and Homebrewopenssl, in which case see this solution.
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On your production server, copy
config/initializers/production.rb.sampletoconfig/initalizers/production.rband customize it with your site'sdomainandname. (You don't need this on your dev machine). -
On your personal computer, you probably want to add some sample data.
lobsters$ rails fake_data
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Run the Rails server in development mode. You should be able to login to
http://localhost:3000with your newtestuser:lobsters$ rails server
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Deploying the site in production requires setting up a web server and running the app in production mode. There are more tools and options available than we can describe; find a guide or an expert. The lobsters-ansible repo has our config files to crib from. Some app-specific notes:
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Set up crontab or another scheduler to run regular jobs:
*/5 * * * * cd /path/to/lobsters && env RAILS_ENV=production sh -c 'bundle exec ruby script/mail_new_activity; bundle exec ruby script/mastodon_sync.rb; bundle exec ruby script/traffic_range' -
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You probably want to use git-imerge to pull in changes from Lobsters to your site.
Basic moderation happens on-site, but most other administrative tasks require use of the rails console in production.
Administrators can create and edit tags at /tags.
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