Install Redmine 2.4.3 on CentOS 6.5 64-bit

Ruby is not good with dependency management, especially different versions come into play.

With that said, I still need to install Redmine 2.4.3 on my CentOS 6.5 virtual machine. I tried Bitnami first, but it failed, which was a little bit unexpected. Since Bitnami used to help me so much in avoiding the installation nightmare of Ruby software. Anyway, I guess the CentOS 6.5 is just too new.

Install steps are listed below:

1. yum install mysql-server mysql-devel ImageMagick ImageMagick-devel ruby ruby-devel rubygems, rubygems-devel

2. Install rvm in shell:  curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io

   bash -s stable

3. rvm install 1.9.3 ; rvm use 1.9.3
4. gem install rails rmagick mysql2 bundler
5. Start MySQL service. According to redmine’s online installation manual, create database, grant user privileges and change the database.yml in redmine config directory.
6. Install redmine bundle： bundle install –without development test
7. rake generate_secret_token
8. RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate
9. RAILS_ENV=production rake redmine:load_default_data
10. Add linux user and group: useradd redmine
    mkdir -p tmp tmp/pdf public/plugin_assets
    sudo chown -R redmine:redmine files log tmp public/plugin_assets
    sudo chmod -R 755 files log tmp public/plugin_assets
11. Start it： ruby script/rails server webrick -e production