quora: An HTML repository from BoZhuM

Quora clone write in Ruby on Rails.

Requirements

Install there software at first

Linux (suggest Ubuntu 10.10+) or Mac OS X (Don’t try it on Windows, and send error messages to me!)
Ruby 1.9.2 (not support 1.9.1 or 1.8)
MongoDB 1.8
Redis 2.2.2
Node.js 0.4.5
Coreseek 4.0.1 (In English content, you can use Sphinx 1.10)
Git

Installation

Start Redis, Mongodb first, you need

$ sudo service redis start
$ sudo service mongodb start

Download Quora source code from Github

$ git clone git://github.com/huacnlee/quora.git

Configure Quora

$ cd quora
$ bundle install --path vendor/bundle
$ cp config/mongoid.yml.default config/mongoid.yml
$ cp config/setting.yml.default config/setting.yml
$ cp config/redis.yml.default config/redis.yml
$ cp config/zomet.yml.default config/zomet.yml
$ cp config/sphinx.yml.default config/sphinx.yml

Create Sphinx config files and index the database to Sphinx (Before here, you need install Coreseek first.)

$ rake mongoid_sphinx:configure
$ rake mongoid_sphinx:index
$ rake mongoid_sphinx:start

If you have Quora project old data in the Mongodb, you need to run this script to index the old data for search

$ rake search:index

After, run Rails Server

$ rails s

Then, open your browser, points to http://127.0.0.1:3000
That is it, enjoy yourself.

If you have any Issues or Questions, please send message to Quora Issues on Github.

BoZhuM/quora