Quickstart Notes for SLIMarray on Linux (generic)

This describes installation of SLIMarray on Linux without LDAP or development support, running on the WEBrick server. For other options, please refer to the more detailed SLIMarrayFullInstallNotes.

Configure your firewall to have port 3000 open

Install prerequisite sofware:

        wget
        mysql
        mysql-server
        ruby
        ruby-rdoc
        ruby-irb
        ruby-devel
        subversion

Install RubyGems:

        wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/5207/rubygems-0.8.11.tgz
        tar zxf rubygems-0.8.11.tgz
        cd rubygems-0.8.11
        sudo ruby setup.rb

MySQL Configuration:

Open up /etc/my.cnf and change the line that reads ‘old_passwords=1’ to ‘old_passwords=0’. Start mysqld with:

# usually this will do it (must be root) sudo /sbin/service mysqld start

Configure mysql server databases and users:

        mysql -u root
        mysql> CREATE DATABASE slimarray_production;
        mysql> CREATE DATABASE slimarray_development;
        mysql> CREATE DATABASE slimarray_test;
        mysql> DELETE FROM mysql.user WHERE User = '';
        mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY
        'password_you_choose' WITH GRANT OPTION;
        mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
        mysql> quit

Configuring SLIMarray:

Copy chip_accounting/config/database.example to chip_accounting/config/database.yml. Edit chip_accounting/config/database.yml to make username: root and password: <password_you_chose_earlier> for all 3 environments

Check out code and populate database:

        cd /path/where/you/want/slimarray
        svn co http://slimarray.systemsbiology.net/svn/trunk
        mysql -u root -p slimarray_development < db/default.mysql
        mysql -u root -p slimarray_production < db/default.mysql

Set permissions on scripts and run web server:

        chmod -R a+x script
        script/server

At this point, you should be able to open a web browser and have things work when you navigate to localhost:3000. The default username is ‘admin’ with a password (that should be changed to something less obvious) of ‘admin’. Other installation options such as LDAP support, support for ‘rake’ tasks and Apache server support are described in the main SLIMarray_install.notes.