Before we start...

Please give your feedback to this page, and let us know how you manage to (not) install Truetopia in you environment. We can hopefully help you with this page, and with your help it can help many others.

Currently Truetopia is in alpha stage, nothing much usable yet, therefor we do not encourage non-developers to install this software.

This page is just a quick guideline now,

First (preparations)

Before you can start running Truetopia you need:

• a database, either MySQL, Posgres or sqlite3 (for development we use sqlite3).
• a recent (>=1.8.6) version of the Ruby programming language (please share your experience if you use JRuby -- it should work)
• a recent version of rubygems (try
• the data_objects rubygem (sudo gem install data_objects)
• the data_objects (do) gem for your database (sudo gem install do_sqlite2 do_mysql do_postgres)

Then (getting Truetopia)

As Truetopia is in alpha stage, it is mainly targeted to developers. So you get your copy of Truetopia straight out of the source code repository (github).

If you dont have git installed already, install it. (try your package manager, or try googling for "git instal howto $PLATFORM_NAME")

All that's left then is:

git clone git://github.com/cies/truetopia.git

And finally (run it)

Go to the root of the application (cd truetopia) and run it with:

bin/merb

That's all folks!