#Welcome to Hibiscus

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#Installation directions for development environment

1. Setup your environment variable for GITHUB_ID, GITHUB_SECRET
   1. Register your application with github at https://github.com/settings/applications
   2. Application name: Hibiscus development
   3. Main url: http://locallost
   4. Callback url: http://localhost:3000/auth/github/callback
   5. add the following to .bash_profile

export GITHUB_ID="d8a90randomjunk1dasdsa"<br/>
# should match "Client Id" from the Github applications page
export GITHUB_SECRET="a89309adsrandomjunk1j9fajsJ"
# should match "Client Secret" from the Github applications page

1. Setup your environment variable for SEARCHIFY_HIBISCUS_API_URL from http://searchify.com/
   1. add the following to .bash_profile

export SEARCHIFY_HIBISCUS_API_URL="http://something"
export SEARCHIFY_HIBISCUS_INDEX="hibiscus"

1. restart your terminal

2. If you enable sending of emails in development environment, then setup your environment variable for emails. Currently this is only needed for testing article feed importer

export SMTP_SERVER_USERNAME=
SMTP_SERVER_PASSWORD=

1. Setup your environment variable for ARTICLE_USER_ID. This is used by the Article Generator.
   1. add the following to .bash_profile

export ARTICLE_USER_ID="scotty"

2. restart your terminal
3. in terminal run "rake db:seed" to create default article user

Troubleshooting

OpenSSL error

OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed

While trying to sign in through github, if you run into an error that resembles the above, follow below steps:

# Get hold of a ssl certificate file
sudo curl -O http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem

# Rename the certificate
mv cacert.pem ~/cert.pem

# add the SSL_CERT_FILE environment variable
export SSL_CERT_FILE=~/cert.pem

##Local mongo database

1. install mongo (See http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Quickstart+OS+X )

##Remote mongo database

1. setup your environment variable for MONGOHQ_URL from https://www.mongohq.com/home The url looks like mongodb://:@staff.mongohq.com:/

#Installation directions for Heroku

1. heroku config:set GOOGLE_ANALYTICS:UA-12345678-1