diaspora* for OpenShift

This is currently broken until OpenShift adds support for Rails 4.2!

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184179

This repository contains modifications to diaspora* for easy deployment.

Installation

Create an account on OpenShift
Install the CLI tool, gem install rhc, don't forget to run rhc setup.
If you have none yet generate a SSH keypar: ssh-keygen.

Create the application:

rhc app create diaspora ruby-2.0 postgresql-9.2 'http://cartreflect-claytondev.rhcloud.com/reflect?github=smarterclayton/openshift-redis-cart'

If it asks you to upload your SSH key, answer yes.

Run the following commands:

cd diaspora
git remote add upstream git://github.com/jhass/diaspora-openshift.git
git fetch upstream
git reset --hard upstream/master
git push -f origin master

Grab a coffee.

Configuration

Configuration is done via environment variables. To change something from the default set them via rhc env set, see rhc help env. To see what's available, read config/diaspora.yml.example.

Adding yourself as an admin

After you created an account on your new diaspora* pod, you can make yourself an admin with: rhc ssh diaspora -- '/bin/bash -c "cd $OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR; source .openshift/diaspora_configuration; bundle exec rails runner \"Role.add_admin(User.where(username: \\\"your_username\\\").first.person)\""'.

Updating

Note: Unfortunately due to changes in diaspora* 0.5, it got incompatible with the MySQL installed on OpenShift, upgrading diaspora* 0.4 installed from this repository to diaspora* 0.5 is not possible! Instead make a backup of your MySQL database, delete your app and create a new one with the same name as described above, then import the backup of your MySQL database into PostgreSQL.

Go into your local clone.
Run git pull upstream master.
Run git push origin master.
It's time for another coffee.