FAQ

1. How do I create an administrator account?
   Administrator privileges are assigned through the database. First, create a user (sign up for an account), then, you’ll have to alter that user’s database record so that the column ‘admin’ is set to ‘1’.
2. How to I add countries and metro areas, or states?
   Log in as an administrator, then go to /countries, /metro_areas, or /states to manage the respective object. To add in bulk, directly to the database, you’ll probably want to use a migration. For example: 014_add_states.rb.
3. How do I write a post in the forum?
   First, you’ll have to create a forum (only an administrator can do that). Log in as an administrator, then go to /forums and you’ll see a link to create a new forum.
4. In development mode, I don’t receive a confirmation e-mail when signing up.
   You probably need to set your ActionMailer delivery method to sendmail:

   #in development.rb
   
   ActionMailer::Base.delivery_method = :sendmail

5. How do I manage CE’s migrations?
   To migrate your application to CE’s latest version, use:

   script/generate plugin_migration

   If there are new CE migrations that you haven’t applied yet, CE will warn you when you start your server, or run tests.
6. How do I manage CE’s migrations and deploy them with capistrano?
   Normaly the best would be to run the script/generate plugin_migration during deloyment process. But there is a problem: the generator will work with RAILS_ENV=development by default. A deployment to production will try to generate the plugin_migrations under development.
   So run the plugin_migrations before you deploy, check them in to your SCM and call deploy:migrations. This will update your code base and run the new migrations.