Domain & Server Setup

Documentation

I plan to document the process of creating this website and all of its features as a tutorial. Buying the domain google'd "google domain registration" visited http://www.google.com/a/cpanel/domain/new bought thewardmenu.com (planning to buy the .org as well) Readying the Test Box grabbed an older running commodity computer installed ubuntu apt-get install --yes apache2 apache2-mpm-worker libapache2-mod-passenger ruby-full rubygems rails vim-rails OR to run rails alongside php: http://wiki.brightbox.co.uk/docs:phusion-passenger Hello World on RAILS Here's some really quick code just to see that rails is installed and up and running mkdir -p ~/Code/ cd ~/Code rails TheWardMenu ruby scripts/generate controller hello cat - > app/views/hello/index.html.erb < Hello World! EOF ruby script/server http://localhost:3000 http://localhost:3000/hello Creating the Data Structure Our local database will store user and ward names. It will not store passwords or any other personal information for the logged-in user. However, it will cache the ward database for a few days. For this reason we will also log a timestamp for the user and the directory cache. script/generate model Stake name:string script/generate model Ward name:string stake:references script/generate model User ldsaccount:string last_login:timestamp ward:references script/generate model Member first:string last:string photo:binary  edit Member Migration blurb:text ward:references Logging Into LDS.org LoginController:   private   def test_lds_account(username, password)     require 'mechanize'     #puts "Logging in..."     # Start up our "web browser"     agent = WWW::Mechanize.new     agent.user_agent_alias = 'Mac Safari'     # Start at the main LDS.org page     begin       page = agent.get('http://lds.org/')     rescue Exception       return false       #abort "Can't connect to LDS.org. Try again later."     end     page = page.links.find {|l| l.text =~ /ward.*site/i}.click          # Go to the login page     form = page.forms.find {|f| f.name =~ /log/i}                       # Find the login form     form.fields.find {|f| f.name =~ /user/i}.value = username           # Enter the username     form.fields.find {|f| f.name =~ /pass/i}.value = password           # Enter the password     page = form.submit                                                  # Try to login     # Check for a failed login     if /login/i.match(page.title)       #abort "Unable to login! Incorrect username and/or password?"       return false     end     #puts "Navigating to the membership directory..."     page = page.links.find {|l| l.text =~ /member.*directory/i}.click   # Go to the membership directory page     link = page.links.find {|l| l.text =~ /photo/i}                     # Find the link to the version of the directory with the photos     # The actual URL for the photo directory is embedded in javascript     # in the HREF field. So we have to dig it out ourselves.     # TODO Can we pull the base of the URI from the agent (or page)     # instead of hard coding it?     photo_directory_url = 'https://secure.lds.org' + /(\/.*\.html)/i.match(link.uri.to_s)[1]     page = agent.get(photo_directory_url)     #puts "Downloading the pictures (this can take several minutes)..."     # Yes, this page actually has _two_ HTML title elements!     ward_name = page.search('/html/head/title[1]').inner_text.strip     ward_name.slice!(' Membership Directory')     return ward_name   end Overriding the default authentication of Authlogic_Example User.find_by_login(params[:user_session][:login]) ldsorg = Ldsorg(params[:user_session][:login], params[:user_session][:password]) if ldsorg.ldslogin   UserSession.new(@user, true) end Updating the progress of the directory to the user requires using a generator. http://anthonylewis.com/2007/11/09/ruby-generators/ Moving from the WEBrick test environment to a production apache server http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide.html#_deploying_a_ruby_on_rails_application http://guides.rubyonrails.org/getting_started.html cat config/database.yml rake db:create TODO.... sort out how to run passenger and php on the same system due to prefork / worker conflict