Setting up your project

Setting up your project

If you follow along step-by-step, there's a very good chance you'll create your first Scribe project. Since each project has its own combination features and requirements, there may be sections that you can skip. Rest assured, we will tell you when you can do so.

Set up your environment

Scribe requires Rails, MongoDB, and Node to be installed. Select your operating system for step-by-step instructions:

• Mac OSX Setup
• Windows Setup
• Unix Setup

Configure your project

1. Creating Your Project - Input information about your project
2. Define Your Project Workflows - Define what you are asking your users to do
3. Define Your Project Subjects - Define what documents or images you are asking your users to perform tasks on
4. Create Help Content - (optional) Create tips and tutorials to help your users perform tasks
5. Customize Design - (optional) Adjust the look and feel of your project

Load your project

• Rake Commands For Managing Projects - A set of rake tasks are available for creating, updating, and deleting projects
• Once a project is loaded, you can visit http://localhost:3000/ in your browser
• Deploying Your Project - Follow these instructions for deploying your app to a production server