Quick Start

This quick-start is intended for developers and early adopters who want to get started running an open money client.

Step 1: Install Prerequisites

• Ruby
• Database: You can use any database that Rails supports. We’ve been developing on MySQL 5
• Rails
• Git
• An installed version of openmoney-server running on some host

Step 2: Install openmoney-client

Clone the git repository with:

git clone git://github.com/openmoney/openmoney-client.git

Then do the standard rails set-up actions, i.e.

1. create a database “omclient_development” (this will vary depending on which database you chose)

2. cd config
   cp database_example.yml database_yml

3. edit config/database.yml with the database passwords and and setup according to which database you chose.

Once you have set up the database then you can:

rake db:migrate
ruby script/server

Step 3: Configuration

You should now have the client running an accessible at: localhost:3000. Point your browser at http://localhost:3000 and click on “new user profile” The first profile that is created will be given admin privileges. Click on the “config” menu to configure the client options, most importantly which server the client should connect to. The default is http://localhost:3001. Thus the assumption is that you have installed the openmoney-server and have it running on port 3001 . See the http://projects.openmoney.info/rubyom for details.

Updated Dec 14, 2008 by Eric Harris-Braun

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