Skinnyboard helps agile project teams collaborate to get work done. It provides project boards of virtual index cards that you use to assign work, track status, and measure performance.
Its written in Ruby and uses Rails, Sinatra, CouchDB, mysql, jQuery and Sammy.js in an unholy marriage of api, website, ajax, relational, and nosql, all in a rack stew.
Fluid Media, Inc. offers it as a hosted service where you can try it for free
We are pleased to offer the code up to the community. We are hoping that people will use it, and help to make it better.
To run skinny board, you’ll need to get the source and install the gems.
You will also need a CouchDB server running on http://localhost:5984.
From the application root do the following:
To set up CouchDB:
- curl -X PUT http://localhost:5984/c1
- rake couchdb:load_design_docs db=http://localhost:5984/c1
To setup the db:
- configure database.yml
- rake db:migrate
The app uses subdomain-fu so you need to add an entry to your /etc/hosts file:
- 127.0.0.1 skinnyboard.local
Run the app:
- ruby config.ru
- http://skinnyboard.local:3000/
- click ‘Sign Up’ to create an account owner (you only need to do this once)
Stop the app then run:
- rake utils:subdomains
This will add the correct domains to your etc/hosts file.
Start the app again, and you can login with with account you created above.
Important Only the account owner uses sign-up, all other users are invited into the system.
Other things you’ll need to set in the config:
- set up your email server and uncomment notifier in UserObserver
- set up your S3 bucket for user avatars
- set up your re-capthcha keys
If you want to run all the tests, you’ll have to create another couchdb database:
- curl -X PUT http://localhost:5984/stage
- rake couchdb:load_design_docs db=http://localhost:5984/stage
To run the tests:
- rake spec=
There is still lots to be done and we’d love your help. Please contribute patches (with tests),
suggestions, criticisms.
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