I asked around on HN a while back for a project management solution. I’ll do a comparison post soon among all the ones i checked out. I also tested Redmine, which came highly recommended. Using it with SQLite on Windows might result in an nmake error, while installing the ruby-sqlite3 gem. Make the minor changes mentioned below to make it work.
You can choose to download it from RubyForge, or plain old svn with
svn co http://redmine.rubyforge.org/svn/trunk redmine
You might also want to check out the Bitnami readymade stack at http://bitnami.org/stack/redmine.
Redmine is based on Ruby on Rails, so you need to install those two first. The install guide on their site uses MySQL by default, but we want to use the more portable SQLite instead. To do that, you only need to modify/add to the steps listed in http://www.redmine.org/wiki/redmine/RedmineInstall, as follows:
- Install the Ruby sqlite3 gem, after installing Ruby and Rails. Only the specific version mentioned below works on my machine. If you don’t specify the version, it may result in an nmake error on Windows.
gem install sqlite3-ruby -v=1.2.1
- Follow the steps in the install guide till where it asks you to copy the database.yml . Then in database.yml, you could replace
production:
by production:
adapter: mysql
database: redmine
host: localhost
username: root
password:
encoding: utf8
adapter: sqlite3
dbfile: db/redmine.db - The rest of the steps stay the same, for eg. the following commands
rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV="production"
rake redmine:load_default_data RAILS_ENV="production"
ruby script/server webrick -e production
The rest of the steps should be similar to the one mentioned on the install documentation, for example setting permissions to directories etc., if you’re on Linux.
