Look into Vagrant to decide if it can be a good solution for us:

[G0dwin]

• https://medium.com/@JohnFoderaro/how-to-set-up-a-local-linux-environment-with-vagrant-163f0ba4da77
• https://www.sitepoint.com/getting-started-vagrant-windows/

[G0dwin]

Installation steps (based on windows install)

1. Install git
2. Install rails
3. Install Postgres
4. Install Node.js
5. Download phantomjs and put in path
6. Download and install ImageMagick
7. Download and install GraphicsMagick: ftp://ftp.graphicsmagick.org/pub/GraphicsMagick/windows
8. Create your database.yml
9. Execute: gem install bundler
10. If on windows, multiple copies of bcrypt get installed so you will need to uninstall one using gem uninstall bcrypt
11. bundle exec rake db:create
12. bundle exec rake db:migrate
13. bundle exec rake bumbleberry:update
14. bundle exec rake lingua_franca:import
15. Add your browser to app/assets/stylesheets/bumbleberry-settings.json
16. bundle exec rake assets:precompile
17. Start the server using rails s -p 3001 (rails s -b 0.0.0.0 to make accessible on other devices)
18. sign in
19. go to 'Conferences'
20. In your db, find your new user and make their role 'admin'
21. Refresh page and create a new conference

[drwlrsn]

I think the best bet might be to make a kind of all-in-one Docker container with the Rails app and DB running in the same container.

We should strive to have something as simple as docker run bikecollectives/website or whatever.