h2. Requirements

before you start, make sure you have:

* Puppet >= 0.24-4

* rake >= 0.84 

* git

The installation has been successfully tested on RHE5 and Ubuntu 8.04 -  9.04,  for older operating systems you might need additional packages (e.g. sqlite)

h2. Download

h3. Latest stable release

Latest stable version can be found "here":http://theforeman.org/attachments/download/21/foreman-0.1.tar.bz2

h3. Latest source code

You can get the latest source code of Foreman from the git repository hosted at github.

This is the preferred way to get Foreman if you want to benefit from the latest improvements. By using the git repository you can also upgrade more easily.

to get latest "stable" version do:

<pre><code>git clone git://github.com/ohadlevy/foreman.git foreman

cd foreman

git submodule init

git submodule update

</code></pre>

* if you are behind a proxy or firewall and dont have access to github using the git protocol, use http protocol instead (e.g.)

<pre>

git clone http://github.com/ohadlevy/foreman.git foreman

cd foreman

sed -i 's/git:\/\//http:\/\//g' .gitmodules

git submodule init

git submodule update

</pre>

h2. Initial setup

h3. Database

Foreman uses a database, this database can be shared with Puppet store-configs (they are compatible, as Foreman extends the puppet database schema).

By default, SQLite is used, if you want to use other database (e.g. MySQL) please modify the configuration file under +config/database.yml+.

If you want to share the database with Puppets (storeconfig), just modify +config/database.yml+ to point to the same database configuration as puppet is.

In both cases, please use the *production* settings.

to initialize the database schema type:

<code>RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate</code>

h3. Import Data from Puppet

At this point, you might want to go through the [[FAQ]] to see how can you import your data into Foreman.

h3. Start The Web Server

Start the built in web server by typing:

<code>./script/server -e production</code>

and point your browser to http://foreman:3000

If you would like to keep the server running, I would recommend to setup passenger, an puppet manifest example could be found [[Passenger setup example|here]].

h2. Future Updates

If you would like to update to the latest version of the foreman, execute the following on the foreman directory

<pre><code>git pull

git submodule init

git submodule update

RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate

</code></pre>

and restart your web service.