Quickstart Notes for SLIMarray on Windows

Download and install Ruby

Go to rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org, click on [Download], and pick the

latest stable release (at the time of writing, this was ruby182-15.exe), to download it.

Run the .exe file wherever it was downloaded, and choose to install all

components.

Download and install MySQL

Go to dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/5.0.html. Under ‘Windows

downloads’, choose ‘Pick a mirror’ for Windows (x86). At the time of writing, MySQL 5.0 was the most current release. Optionally fill out their questionaire, and then click on one of the mirrors in the lower part of the page to start downloading.

Open the .zip file you’ve downloaded, and run the Setup.exe file that’s

inside. This will start the installation wizard. The default selections should be okay, so click [Next>] to go through the steps, and finally [Install].

During the installation, you’ll be presented with a sign-up wizard, where you

can elect to create a MySQL.com account, or skip that step.

Once installation is complete, make sure the ‘Configure the MySQL Server now’

box is checked, and click [Finish]

In the MySQL Server Instance Configuration Wizard, choose ‘Standard

Configuration’, then on the next page make sure that the ‘Install As Windows Service’ is checked, as well as ‘Launch the MySQL Server automatically’. Check the box to ‘Include Bin Directory in Windows PATH’.

On the next page, make sure ‘Modify Security Settings’ is checked, and enter a

root password. Remember this—you’ll need it later. Leave ‘Enable root access from remote machines’ unchecked, as well as ‘Create An Anonymous Account‘

On the next, final page, choose [Execute] to apply the settings you chose.

Configure MySQL

Click Start -> All Programs -> MySQL -> MySQL Server 5.0 -> MySQL Command

Line Client

Enter the password you chose in the previous secion.

You should now have a ‘mysql>’ command line. Enter the following command to create the databases:

     mysql> CREATE DATABASE slimarray_production;
     mysql> CREATE DATABASE slimarray_development;
     mysql> CREATE DATABASE slimarray_test;
     mysql> quit

Download SLIMarray and install

Go to slimarray.systemsbiology.net/download and download

slimarray-0.1.0.zip

Open the zip file and extract its contents into C:\Program Files, so that

the software resides in the directory C:\Program Files\slimarray-0.1.0

Configuring SLIMarray

SLIMarray needs to be configured to connect with the MySQL databases you created. In the directory where you extracted SLIMarray (C:\Program Files\slimarray-0.1.0), make a copy of the file config/database.example file as config/database.yml. Edit slimarray-0.1.0/config/database.yml, changing the username to ‘root’ and password to whatever password you chose during MySQL installation. Do this for all three sections: production, development and test.

Check out code and populate database

Open a command line window: Click Start -> Run, then enter ‘cmd’ in the dialog box that comes up. Enter the following:

        C:
        cd \Program Files\slimarray-0.1.0
        mysql -u root -p slimarray_development < db/default.mysql
        mysql -u root -p slimarray_production < db/default.mysql

Start the web server

In the same windows as used in the previous step, enter:

        ruby script/server

Conclusion

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.

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