nanego / my-dcim

My Data Center Infrastructure Manager

My DCIM

This Ruby On Rails app is a tool built to effectively manage data center infrastructures.

Installation steps

Step 1. Dependencies

1.1 PostgreSQL

1.2 Git

Step 2. Ruby Installation Using RVM

2.1 Installing Ruby using RVM (development version)

Run the following commands to install stable version:

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm

rvm install 3.3.0

rvm use 3.3.0 --default

2.2 Installing Bundler

Bundler is a tool that allows you to install multiple gem versions, run this command to install bundler:

gem install bundler

Step 3. Configurations

3.1 Clone Application Code

Clone project code from GitHub:

git clone https://github.com/nanego/my-dcim

3.2 Navigate to Project Directory

cd my-dcim

3.3 Installing Gems

bundle install

3.4 PDF configuration

Using following command in terminal to get path of wkhtmltopdf library path that is already installed on system.

which wkhtmltopdf

Edit config/config.yml with your own application wkhtmltopdf path.

wkhtmltopdf_path: YOUR_WKHTMLTOPDF_PATH

3.5 SMTP configuration

Edit config/config.yml with your own application smtp settings.

 smtp_setting:
     address: smtp.gmail.com
     port: 587
     authentication: :plain
     enable_starttls_auto: true
     user_name: YOUR_EMAIL_HERE
     password: YOUR_PASSWORD_HERE

3.6 Configuring Database

Copy config/database.yml.copy to config/database.yml and set your postgres username/password. After that run following command from terminal to create PostgreSQL database specified in database.yml file.

rake db:create

3.7 Tables schema and seeding

rake db:migrate

Loading default values in database

rake db:seed

Step 4. Run

4.1 Development Environment

Your application is ready to use. Run rails server using following command:

rails server

and use your application in browser by typing in url: localhost:3000

4.2 Production Environment

You can also configure Apache, Nginx or any other web/application server of your choice to execute in production mode.

Contributing

Here are some of the ways you can contribute:

Report or fix Bugs

Improve test coverage

As with any large and growing codebase, test coverage is not always as good as it could be. Help improving test coverage is always welcome and will help you learn how My-DCIM works.

Refactor code

Translate the project

Build new features

1. Fork the Github repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-awesome-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-awesome-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request