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Installing bitcoin-central

Bitcoin Central powers bitcoin-central.net, a bitcoin trading platform. It is :

• Open Source,
• Based on Ruby on Rails,
• Fully localizable,
• Multi-currency.

Linux and Windows setup work well, I found the easiest to be an Ubuntu install

Windows

1. Install Ruby and MySQL
2. Install Ruby Development Kit (https://github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/development-kit)
3. Install rubygems

Linux (Debian flavors)

1. Install required packages

    $ sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev libssl-dev irb rubygems mysql
   

2. Add gem binaries to path and re-login

    # First line of /etc/environment should show something like this
    PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin"
   

3. Update rubygems if necessary (http://programmers-blog.com/2009/04/12/ruby-gem-update-system-is-disabled-on-debian)

Common

1. Install rails and bundler

    $ sudo gem install rails bundler
   

2. Fork project if relevant

3. Check out sources with git

4. Install the required gems

    $ cd [SOURCE PATH]
    $ bundle
   

5. Log-in to MySQL console and run the following

    GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON bitcoin-bank_development.* TO 'rails'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'rails';
   

6. Run a couple of rake tasks

    $ rake db:create
    $ rake db:migrate
   

7. Edit config/bitcoin.yml to be able to connect your instance to a bitcoin client

8. Run the rails server

    $ rails s
   

Your fresh instance should now be running on http://localhost:3000/ !

Contributions

All are welcome, improvements, fixes and translations. Please read the security guidelines before contributing.

License

AGPL License. Copyright 2010-2011 David FRANCOIS