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It is a great pity that the website is to be shut down. I used easybacklog for educational purposes in our vocational school. And I was really thankful that an easy to use website like this existed. I would like to install the site on a virtual machine so that my students can continue to practice the basics of agile project management. I don't need any new features.
But I am already failing to create the right environment. Many of the software tool versions required by the website have already reached End of Support and I cannot install them. Because my Linux knowledge is limited. Already "rbenv" complains e.g. about the missing method "rubyforge_project", which was probably removed from ruby at some point. So (on Xubuntu 20.04) I can't even change to the old ruby version 2.5.7 required by the gemfile.
Therefore it would be really great if someone could write an installation guide that allows to create the required easybacklog environment on a current Linux distribution and that descibes how to configure everything for starting the website on a local webserver: on a beginner level.
Again, it is really sad that the website goes out of service, but it would be really helpful if non-ruby experts like me could still use it locally.
I know, it's a shame indeed.
In regards to the dependencies, I am afraid I had the same issue. I was hoping to upgrade all dependencies before open sourcing it, but it became tricky for two reasons: a) the dependencies are very out of date, b) I am now on an ARM architecture which broke some dependencies too.
I am afraid I don't have the time to write a README and installation guide. If you have specific questions, I would be happy to answer them, but I tried before I open sourced and sadly failed.
Thanks to @mattheworiordan for pointing me here to the source.
As we still use EasybackLog, we will look at trying to setup and environment/updating the software and will post back here if we have any luck.