Install Ruby on Rails and Redmine on DS210+

I mentioned it in my manual for (trying) installing Redmine on a DS106j, the 32MB are to few.

As we got a new DS210+ with 512MB RAM and a 1 GHz CPU there was a new chance to get Redmine up and running - and it works!

pre-requirements

• user redmine (if you like to run the service without root privileges)
• ssh aktivated
• ipkg installed
• (HTTP Service and) MySQL Server running (use the Synology DiskStation Manager to start)
• phpMyAdmin for easier access to MySQL

install Ruby on Rails

As you have ipkg up and running, you can simply use the following command to install ruby:

ipkg install rubygems

Additionally (maybe it is not necessary) install zlib:

ipkg install zlib

Now install Rails in Version 2.3.5 to be fit most Redmine pre-requirements (this step will take ca. 30 Minutes even on the shiny new DS210+ so imagine that on the DS106j):

gem install rails -v 2.3.5

install Redmine

Use phpMyAdmin to create a database redmine and optionally a user redmine with the rights to access it.

install ruby-mysql

wget http://github.com/downloads/tmtm/ruby-mysql/ruby-mysql-2.9.3-beta.tar.gz
tar -xzvf ruby-mysql-2.9.3-beta.tar.gz
cd ruby-mysql-2.9.2-beta 
ruby setup.rb

create a folder in /volume1 for the redmine service:

cd /volume1
mkdir rubyapps
cd rubyapps

download redmin (We have used the 0.9.5 because we had some strange errors with the newest 1.0.1 redmine):

wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/71421/redmine-0.9.5.tar.gz

extract it:

tar -xzvf redmine-0.9.5.tar.gz

create a symbolic link to the folder (for easier access later):

ln -s redmine-0.9.5 redmine

change the rights of the folder to the user redmine:

chown redmine:1000 redmine-0.9.5 -R

configure Redmine

login as user redmine:

su redmine

change to folder config in redmine and create database.yml

cd /volume1/rubyapps/redmine/config
cp database.yml.example database.yml  

edit the database.yml

nano database.yml

change:

production:
adapter: mysql
database: redmine <= created in MySQL
host: localhost
username: redmine <= created in MySQL
password: my_password <= set for the user redmine n MySQL

in folder config run following command:

RAILS_ENV=production rake initializers/session_store.rb

Job done!

start Redmine Service

change to root folder of redmine installation:

cd /volume1/rubyapps/redmine

And start the service:

ruby script/server webrick -e production

You can now use your browser and surf to:

http://synolgyIP:3000

start stop script for automatically start service on boot

create the file S97redmine.sh in /usr/syno/etc.defaults/rc.d/ and make it runnable.

Following content (correct the paths!):

#!/bin/sh
case "$1" in
     start)
     /opt/bin/ruby /volume1/rubyapps/redmine/script/server webrick -d -e production 
     ;;
     stop)
     killall ruby
     ;;
     restart)
     $0 stop
     sleep 1
     $0 start
     ;;
     *)
     echo “usage: $0 { start | stop | restart}” >&2
     exit 1
     ;;
     esac

Make it runnable:

chmod 755 S97redmine.sh

To run the service with the optionally created redmine user change the line /opt/bin/ruby.... to:

su redmine "/opt/bin/ruby /volume1/app/redmine/script/server webrick -e production &"