Authors

• Benjamin Kellermann
• a lot of contributors of small code pieces

License

GNU AGPL v3 or higher (see file License)

Requirements

• ruby >=1.9
• git >=1.6.5
• ruby-gettext (for localization)
• gettext, potool, make (optional, if you want to generate localization files)

Installation

1. Place this application into a directory where cgi-scripts are evaluated.

2. If you want to change some configuration, state it in the file config.rb (see config_sample.rb for help) to start with a default configuration.

3. The webserver needs the permission to write into the directory

4. You need .mo files in order to use localisation. You have 2 possibilities:

   1. Run this small script to fetch the files from the main server:

      cd $DUDLE_INSTALLATION_PATH
      for i in locale/??; do
      	wget -O $i/dudle.mo https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de/locale/`basename $i`/dudle.mo
      done

   2. Build them on your own. This requires gettext, ruby-gettext, potool, and make to be installed.

      sudo aptitude install ruby-gettext potool make
      make

5. In order to let access control work correctly, the webserver needs auth_digest support. It therefore may help to type:

   sudo a2enmod auth_digest

6. In order to get atom-feed support you need ruby-ratom to be installed. E.g.:

   sudo aptitude install ruby-dev libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev
   sudo gem install ratom

7. To make titles with umlauts working you need to check the encoding in .htaccess, e.g.

   SetEnv LC_ALL "en_US.UTF-8"

8. It might be the case, that you have to set some additional Variables in your .htaccess:

   SetEnv GIT_AUTHOR_NAME="http user"
   SetEnv [email protected]
   SetEnv GIT_COMMITTER_NAME="$GIT_AUTHOR_NAME"
   SetEnv GIT_COMMITTER_EMAIL="$GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL"

9. If you installed dudle to a subdirectory (i.e. http://$YOUR_SERVER/$SOMEDIR/...), than you want to adopt the ErrorDocument directives in your .htaccess. (You need an absolute path here!)

10. Try to open http://$YOUR_SERVER/check.cgi to check if your config seems to work.

11. You may want to install a cronjob to cleanup dudle polls. See dudle_cleanup.sh for an example.

12. You can enable a maintenance mode if you need to change something with your installation. Using this mode, all users will see a static message and are not able to change anything. In order to enable this mode, create a file named /maintenance.html which may include a custom message. E.g.:

    echo "<div>We are updating the servers and expect to be online on 0 am, January 1st, 1970 (UTC).</div>" > $DUDLE_INSTALLATION_PATH/maintenance.html

image

There is a docker image available

• https://github.com/jpkorva/dudle-docker

Pimp your Installation

• If you want to create your own Stylesheet, you just have to put it in the folder $DUDLE_HOME_FOLDER/css/. Afterwards you may config this one to be the default Stylesheet. You can fetch the whole repo from https://github.com/kellerben/dudle-css
• If you want to extend the functionality you might want to place a file main.rb in $DUDLE_HOME_FOLDER/extension/$YOUR_EXTENSION/main.rb You can clone the whole sourcecode here:
  • https://github.com/kellerben/dudle-extensions-participate
  • https://github.com/kellerben/dudle-extensions-symcrypt
  • https://github.com/kellerben/dudle-extensions-asymcrypt
  • https://github.com/kellerben/dudle-extensions-gpgauth
  • https://github.com/kellerben/dudle-extensions-anonymous Note, that extensions are loaded in alphabetic order! The symcrypt extension e.g. needs the participate extension and therefore you need to name it “10-participate” in order to get executed first.

Translators

If you set $DUDLE_POEDIT_AUTO to your lang, poedit will launch automatically when building the application. E.g.:

export DUDLE_POEDIT_AUTO=fr
git pull
make # will launch poedit if new french strings are to be translated

• To add a new translation

• first add a new folder for your language under $DUDLE_HOME_FOLDER/locale,
• copy the dudle.pot file into your folder and name it dudle.po
• translate sentences and phrases in your dudle.po file
• add an entry for your language in dudle/dudle.rb at line 245