Installation

This section is only of interest to those of you who decide to install Mortimer on hardware controlled by you whether locally or remotely on some VM. The rest of you may skip this one!

You probably will enjoy installing Mortimer the most if you follow the conventions (choices) presented here. That said we are certain a number of other ways of satisfying the basic requirement of a computer that is able to execute Ruby code exist - we just have not tried them out.

Requirements

Hardware

We mentioned it in the previous sentence: a computer that is able to execute Ruby code

That is the overarching requirement. Our preferred 'computer' at the moment is a VM with Hetzner dimensioned with 4BG RAM, 40GB HDD, and a reasonably fast vCPU. It comes with a Ubuntu flavour.

Software

We like Linux and the Ubuntu kind of it for the server.

You should have git on your client in order to manage the code.

You should be able to ssh into it - once you are, you're ready to move on!

Setting up

Find a nice spot on your hard disk and clone the repo like this

git clone https://github.com/alco-company/mortimer-five.git mortimer
cd mortimer

From that particular folder now let Kamal do most of the rest of the heavy-lifting.

kamal setup