This will be web based application for Gentoo Recruiters team. To start testing application you should: 1.Install git. 2.Get sources git clone git://git.overlays.gentoo.org/proj/recruiting-webapp.git to get accepted sources (recommended). Or if you want latest sources and don't mind fact that commit history will be rewritten a few times a day git clone git://github.com/ahenobarbi/Gentoo-Recruiters-App.git 3.Install gems. The best way to do it is to have rake install it for you: rake gems:install or if you want to run tests RAILS_ENV=test rake gems:install 4.Prepare configuration and databases. rake prepare You can pass db=sqlite3, db=postgres or db=mysql if you want rake to prepare database configuration for you. You can pass seed= if you want rake to seed you database with example data. 5. (Optional) You can run test I prepared by simply issuing rake 6. Start server ruby script/server it will be listening for connections on port 3000. Configuration In config/config.yml you can set: developer_data: check - Should developer data be checked (Gentoo join time for mentors) data - String with developer data to use (overrides uri) uri - URI from which developer data shall be obtained min_months_mentor_is_dev: 6 - Number of months mentor must spend as Gentoo Dev before [s]h can became a mentor seed: users_domain - Domain for emails of users from default seed There is example of this file in doc/config/config.yml. Seed If you want to edit seed remember you can use erb in db/fixtures/*.yml files.