Running Instiki - Best practices

Posted by Andrew Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:47:00 GMT

Best practices for running Instiki

Initial setup – prerequisites

1. Download and install Ruby 1.8.2. In all our experience, later versions of Ruby break Instiki. You can download the source from ruby-lang.org . We recommend building from source (tar zxvf, cd to dir, ./configure, make, make install), though you can certainly install ruby with any of the various package managers out there.
2. Download and install rubygems . tar zxvf the file, cd into the dir, and run `ruby setup.rb`
3. run `gem install instiki—include-dependencies`. Besides Ruby 1.8.2, the current Instiki (0.10.2) needs Rails 0.13.1, not higher. A very nice thing about gem is that you can have multiple versions of packages, e.g. Rails 1.0.0 and 0.13.1 installed, and different ruby gems and apps just seem to know what they need.

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