== Welcome to El Dorado

El Dorado is a full-stack community web application written in Ruby/Rails. It features a forum,
event calendar, group chat, file sharing, random headers, avatars, themes, and privacy settings.
http://almosteffortless.com/eldorado


== Installation

git clone git://github.com/trevorturk/eldorado.git
cd eldorado
cp config/database.example.yml config/database.yml
cp config/config.example.yml config/config.yml
touch log/development.log
sudo rake gems:install
rake db:create
rake db:schema:load
script/server
# http://localhost:3000/


== Deployment on Heroku

sudo gem install heroku
heroku create
# Set the variables for your production environment in config/config.yml
rake s3:create
rake heroku:config
git push heroku master
heroku rake db:schema:load
heroku open


== Upgrading on Heroku

heroku db:pull sqlite://db/backup.sqlite3
git pull
# Review possible config changes in config/config.example.yml
rake heroku:config
git push heroku master
heroku rake db:migrate
heroku open


== Deployment on Other Hosts

Deployment is also straightforward on Slicehost, Engine Yard, Dreamhost, etc.
See config/deploy.example.rb for an example Capistrano deployment script.
Read the Slicehost Rails articles for help: http://articles.slicehost.com/rails


== Are you using El Dorado? 

Add your site here: http://wiki.github.com/trevorturk/eldorado/


== Changes

HEAD
- Localization (da, de, en)

1.0
- Stable version with Rails 2.3.5 and blog, chat, events, files, forum, headers


== Contributors

git log | grep Author | sort | uniq

Elk
Jacob Tjoernholm
Manfred Usselmann
Nick Merwin
Trevor Turk
iamwil
irkenInvader
mrgone220


== Thanks

NewAthens.org, Matt Brent, Artie Jordan, Max Mearsheimer, Timothy O'Connell,
Rick Olson and Josh Goebel (Beast), Rickard Andersson (PunBB),
Michael Heilemann (K2), Josh Peek, and Wilhelm Chung.


== MIT License

Copyright (c) 2006... Trevor Turk

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
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