== 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

Requirements: The ability to run a Ruby on Rails application (http://rubyonrails.org/)

1) Copy config/database.example.yml to config/database.yml
2) Create your database ("rake db:create")
3) Load the database schema ("rake db:schema:load")
4) Start your web server ("script/server")

== Upgrading

Note: Back up your database and files before performing an upgrade.

1) Consider using Capistrano and skipping steps 2 and 3 (see config/deploy.example.rb)
2) Download the latest El Dorado release from http://almosteffortless.com/eldorado
3) Replace the files in your installation except for avatars/files/headers/themes in public/
4) Migrate to the latest database schema ("rake db:migrate" or "cap deploy:migrations")

== Thanks

NewAthens.org, Matt Brent, Artie Jordan, Max Mearsheimer, Timothy O'Connell, Matz et al. (Ruby), 
DHH et al. (Rails), Rick Olson and Josh Goebel (Beast), Rickard Andersson et al. (PunBB), 
Matt Mullenweg et al. (WordPress), Michael Heilemann et al. (k2), Josh Peek, and Wilhelm Chung.