The Chinese-European DFG Research Unit “BEF China” (FOR 891) has started a new forest Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning (BEF) experiment in subtropical forests in China. Within “Central project Z2: Data management” a data portal specifically tailored to reflect the main scientific questions and the experimental design of the experiment is developed. The Portal shall shall not only be applyable to the befchina experiment but to other similar experiments as well.
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Prerequisites
* Ruby 1.9.3 * PostgreSql Database with plpgsql language * ImageMagick
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Create config-files in project config folder
You can use the provided template files and simply copy or rename them as following
configuration.yml.dist -> configuration.yml database.yml.dist -> database.yml
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Set up the database-connection
In config/database.yml set the username and password
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Configure ImageMagick
Check ImageMagick path by running
which convert
Check if the path in config/environments/development.rb (or production.rb etc.) is corresponding to the one of convert
Paperclip.options[:command_path] = "/usr/bin/"
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Setup the database
rake db:setup load fixtures rake db:fixtures:load
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Fire up development server
rails server
And pointing your browser to localhost:3000 you should see your very own befdata instance.
Befdata is released under the MIT License (MIT):
Copyright © 2012 Department of Special Botany, University of Leipzig, represented by Christian Wirth, The BEF-China Research Unit of the German Research Foundation (DFG), represented by Helge Bruelheide, as well as Karin Nadrowski and Sophia Ratcliffe
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