diaspora* is a privacy-aware, personally-controlled, do-it-all open source social network. Check out our project site and the main repository.

OpenShift is a hosting platform by RedHat.

This repository contains modifications to diaspora* for easy deployment.

• Create an account on OpenShift

• Install the CLI tool, gem install rhc, don't forget to run rhc setup.

• If you have none yet generate a SSH keypar: ssh-keygen.

• Create the application:

  rhc app create diaspora \
     ruby-1.9 mysql-5.5 \
     'http://cartreflect-claytondev.rhcloud.com/reflect?github=smarterclayton/openshift-redis-cart'

• If it asks you to upload your SSH key, answer yes.

• cd diaspora to change into the new repository.

• Run the following commands:

  git remote add upstream git://github.com/MrZYX/diaspora-openshift.git
  git fetch upstream
  git reset --hard upstream/master
  git  push -f origin master

• Grab a coffee.

Configuration is done via environment variables. To change something from the default set them via rhc env set, see rhc help env. To see what's available, read config/diaspora.yml.example.

After you created an account on your new diaspora* pod, you can make yourself an admin with: rhc ssh diaspora -- '/bin/bash -c "cd $OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR; source .openshift/diaspora_configuration; bundle exec rails runner \\"Role.add_admin(User.where(username: \'yourusername\').person)\\""'.

• Go into your local clone.
• Run git pull upstream master.
• Run git push origin master.
• It's time for another coffee.