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= Stop… Camping Time! documentation
A (Camping) web application for task/project time registration and
invoicing.
== Features
* Running project & tasks overview
* Timeline overview of registered time
* Management customer information
* Administration of running and billed projects/task with
* fixed cost, or
* hourly rates
* Administration of invoices
* Invoice generation in PDF/LaTeX format
* can include a time specification if required by the customer
* Fully responsive (can be used om smartphone, tablet and desktop)
== Requirements
Stop… Camping Time! is a Camping application, so you need:
* Ruby 1.9 (>= 1.9.3) or 2.x
* Camping (>= 2.1.532) with
* Active Record (>= 3.2)
* Mab (>= 0.0.3) , and optionally:
* Thin or Mongrel (for testing and deployment without Apache/Rackup)
The following Ruby libraries are required:
* ActionPack (>= 3.2) for ActionView
* ActiveSupport (>= 3.2)
* Rack (for deployment using Apache/Rackup)
* Sass or Haml (which at the moment includes Sass)
and the following LaTeX programs:
* pdflatex, with:
* isodoc package (>= 1.00)
* rubber
It is also possible to use Bundler (which is the default when using
@config.ru@), in this you only need Ruby and Bundler installed.
== Installation
For now, Stop… Camping Time! is in a developing state and not ready for
site-wide deployment yet.
== Usage
Stop… Camping Time! can be deployed directly using the Camping server
(which uses Mongrel, or optionally Webrick). This is for simple
deployments or for testing purposes.
Easy deployment via Apache is possible using Phusion Passenger, aka
_mod_rails_ or _mod_rack_ (see http://modrails.com). See below for the
basic instructions.
Note that this application is a valid Rack application (see
http://rack.rubyforge.org/) and can be deployed by anything that supports
them.
=== Camping Server/Mongrel
Simply run from the command line:
$ camping stoptime.rb
and head over to http://localhost:3301/ to view and use the web
application.
=== Phusion Passenger (mod_rails/mod_rack)/Apache
Camping applications are Rack applications. Deployment follows the
standard way of deploying Rack applications using mod_rack.
Stop… Camping Time! additionally needs to have the +xsendfile+
module installed.
*N.B.* Ensure that Apache can, in both types of setups, write in the +db/+
and +public/+ folder.
==== Deployment on a virtual host
Use the following basic configuration:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName some.domain.tld
DocumentRoot /path/to/stoptime/public
<Directory /path/to/stoptime/public>
Allow from all
Options -MultiViews
</Directory>
XSendFile on
</VirtualHost>
Now, restart Apache and visit http://some.domain.tld/.
==== Deployment on a sub URI
For deployment on a sub URI, let us assume there is some virtual host
serving files under +/path/to/document_root+, i.e. something like:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName some.domain.tld
DocumentRoot /path/to/document_root
<Directory /path/to/document_root/
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Then, add a symlink from the +public+ subdirectory of to the document
root, e.g.
ln -s /path/to/stoptime/public /path/to/document_root/stoptime
Then, add a +RackBaseURI+ option to the virtual host configuration.
For example:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName some.domain.tld
...
RackBaseUri /stoptime
<Directory /path/to/document_root/stoptime>
Options -Multiviews
</Directory>
XSendFile on
</VirtualHost>
Now, restart Apache and visit http://some.domain.tld/stoptime.
For more extensive information, please refer to the documentation of
Phusion Passenger:
http://www.modrails.com/documentation/Users%20guide%20Apache.html#_deploying_a_rack_based_ruby_application
== License
Stop… Camping Time! is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.