A work-in-progress, self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.

The app is currently under active development, if you would like to try it out, please be aware that things may be breaking at a rapid pace.

• Clone the repository

git clone git://github.com/swanson/stringer.git

• Deploy to Heroku

heroku create

heroku addons:add scheduler

git push heroku master

• Setup the database

heroku run rake db:migrate

heroku restart (needed for DelayedJob)

• Setup feed fetching

heroku addons:open scheduler

Add an hourly task that runs rake fetch_feeds

• Follow the app setup

heroku open

• Custom reader.yourdomain.com

heroku domains:add reader.yourdomain.com

Go to your registrar and add a CNAME: Record: CNAME Name: reader Target: your-heroku-instance.herokuapp.com

Wait a few minutes for changes to progate.

• Avoid dyno idle Single dyno Heroku apps idle after a period of inactivity.

You can setup a ping/availability service to prevent this.

Run the tests with rspec.

In development, stringer uses sqlite - there are issues with locking if you run background jobs at the same time as queries are being made via the web app. If you run into these, consider using postgres locally.

MIT