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These are the instructions to get Avalon up and running on a clean OSX machine. You may already have some of these tools.

Install Avalon

Install developer tools

Install dependent packages.

You need to compile ruby with openssl support for CAS login. Otherwise it will crash ruby.

Install RVM, we'll use RVM to manage Ruby (http://rvm.io/)

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby

Reload shell environment using instructions given in rvm installation output.

This might fail because of missing tools. Check the log to see if you need a C/C++ compiler. If so install the GCC binary for OSX (https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer)

If this fails with rubygems not installing run

rvm use ruby; rvm reinstall ruby-1.9.3

Make sure ruby installed correctly

rvm list

Update rubygem

gem update --system

Install bundler for managing dependencies

gem install bundler

Install Java if it is not already present. To check you can execute

java

Install and setup Git

Download and install Git

The next step is for committers.

Create an account on github and set up SSH keys. For more help see the detailed instructions.

cd ~/.ssh
ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "your_email@youremail.com"

Install Matterhorn dependencies

Install homebrew

Install mediainfo

brew install mediainfo
ln -s /usr/local/bin/mediainfo /usr/bin/mediainfo

Download Matterhorn's dependency installation scripts

svn checkout http://opencast.jira.com/svn/MH/trunk/docs/scripts/3rd_party matterhorn_dependencies
cd matterhorn_dependencies

Read the README.txt file for instructions on how to run the ./menu3p installation script.

This may take a LONG time to run so have something else to keep you busy!

Setup Avalon

Go to your workspace. Download and install avalon from github as well as setting up all the gems required for a functioning installation.

On OS X 10.9 Mavericks and later, before running `bundle install`

brew install v8
gem install libv8 -v 3.16.14.3 -- --with-system-v8

See Installing libv8 gem on OS X 10.9+

git clone git@github.com:avalonmediasystem/avalon.git
cd avalon 
bundle install --gemfile=Gemfile.first
bundle install

Setup config files:

Copy config/avalon.yml.example to config/avalon.yml

Copy config/authentication.yml.example to config/authentication.yml

Uncomment "Avalon Lti OAuth" section of config/authentication.yml

Copy config/lti.yml.example to config/lti.yml

Setup config/lti.yml

Copy config/controlled_vocabulary.yml.example to config/controlled_vocabulary.yml

Copy config/secrets.yml.example to config/secrets.yml

Use rake secret to add a `secret_key_base` to the development section of config/secrets.yml

Use rake secret to add a `secret_key_base` to the test section of config/secrets.yml

 

Prepare the databases

rake db:migrate
rake db:test:prepare

Install the hydra-jetty, avalon-felix, and avalon-red5 submodules.  The hydra-jetty submodule contains Fedora and Solr and can be run via jettywrapper rake tasks. The avalon-felix submodule is configured for use with Opencast Matterhorn. avalon-red5 is configured to support Matterhorn integration out of the box.  These two services can also be controlled with rake tasks.  After installing them force tracking of the master branch.

git submodule init
git submodule update
cd jetty/ 
git fetch --tags 
git checkout 4.x
cd ..  
cd felix/
git fetch --tags
git checkout trunk
cd .. 
cd red5/
git fetch --tags
git checkout 1.4.x
cd ..

Start all services

rake jetty:config
rake felix:config
rake avalon:services:start
rake red5:start

Test Avalon

From the directory where you installed Avalon start up your Rails server.

rails s

Navigate to http://localhost:3000

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