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Mconf-Web is the social network in the Mconf webconferencing system. It is developed using Ruby on Rails and is a fork of the VCC project (https://github.com/ging/vcc). If you want more information about this project, please visit http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/prav/gtmconf (Portuguese and English).

If you like this project and want to give us some feedback, please contact [email protected] :)

If you have a suggestion or discovered a bug, please create an issue.

Also if you want to collaborate with this project, send us a patch and we would be glad to receive and merge it.

About the developers

Mconf-Web is part of the project Mconf: http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/prav/gtmconf

• Leonardo Daronco ([email protected])
• Felipe Cecagno ([email protected])
• Alessandra Leonhardt ([email protected])

Mconf-Web uses

Technologies and systems used in this project.

VCC (Virtual Conference Centre)

VCC (now know as Global Plaza) is a project developed in Ruby on Rails to provide a virtual event service for the Internet. It uses the Isabel system to provide webconferencing.

You can find the Global Plaza project running at: http://www.globalplaza.org/

Mconf-Web is actually a fork of VCC. It's source code can be found at https://github.com/ging/vcc

BigBlueButton

BigBlueButton (BBB) is the webconferencing system used by Mconf-Web. BBB is developed in Java and Flash, and is one of the best open source webconferencing softwares (if not the best) today. You can find it at: http://www.bigbluebutton.org/

As VCC uses Isabel, Mconf-Web uses BBB.

Other libraries

• bigbluebutton-api-ruby (https://github.com/mconf/bigbluebutton-api-ruby): A library to access the BigBlueButton API in Ruby applications. Developed to be used in Mconf-Web.

How to start

• Install ruby using rvm (http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/)
  • Quick steps to install rvm (the project currently uses rvm 1.2.6):
    • Run: bash < <( curl http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/releases/rvm-install-head )
    • Add the following line to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile:
    • [[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && . "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" # This loads RVM into a shell session.
    • Start a new prompt or load source in the current shell with: source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
      • To check if it worked, run type rvm | head -1 and it should output rvm is a function
    • Run rvm notes and install the packages under "For Ruby (MRI & ree)"
    • Mconf-Web uses rubygems 1.5.0. If needed, you can specify the version with: rvm rubygems 1.5.0
• Run script/setup: it will install all system packages and all gems needed
• If everything goes well, you can now configure the database and the mailer
  • The script setup will create these files for you, but you need to open and configure them
  • Database: config/database.yml
  • Mailer: config/initializers/mail_conf.rb

Troubleshooting:

If you have problems such as "no such file to load -- sqlite3", setup might not have installed everything. Run script/setup without parameters to see the available commands. You might need to:

• Install all packages: script/setup development packages
• Install all gems: script/setup development gems