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mschlos edited this page Aug 4, 2013 · 4 revisions

Welcome to OpenCounter

OpenCounter helps entrepreneurs navigate the business permitting process. OpenCounter answers three questions for new and prospective business owners: "To open my business's doors here in Santa Cruz, (1) which forms do I need to file, (2) how long will it take, and (3) how much will it cost me?"

Getting Started

  1. You'll need a recent version of Ruby and Postgres -- you'll probably also want rvm.

  2. Install & use a recent version of Ruby: user$ rvm install 1.9.3 user$ rvm use 1.9.3 Using /Users/user/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p194

  3. Change directory to opencounter and install the requirements: user$ bundle install

  4. Create a Postgres database for the app. The default development user is postgres and database name is opencounter_dev. You can customize this in config/database.yml.

  5. Run the migrations to set up the database: user$ rake db:migrate

  6. Start the web server: user$ rails server

  7. Go to http://localhost:3000/ and you'll see the OpenCounter start page

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