Saloon is a Work in Progress forum based on Buffalo. This particular repository houses the legacy saloon which is no longer maintained.
See saloon for a newer saloon in working condition.
One needs a database to run saloon.
Here is an example, running postgres inside a docker container:
$> docker run --name saloon-postgres -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=postgres -p 5432:5432 -d postgres
Ok, so you've edited the "database.yml" file and started postgres, now Buffalo can create the databases in that file for you:
$> buffalo db create -a
v4.2.0
created database saloon-test
created database saloon-prod
created database saloon-dev
You can run saloon to initialize the forum and the content of its database:
$> saloon migrate
> create_users
> create_categories
> create_topics
> create_replies
> create_forums
0.6591 seconds
$> saloon t db:setup
DEBU[2018-03-20T15:39:44+01:00] INSERT INTO users (admin, avatar, created_at, email, full_name, id, password_hash, subscriptions, updated_at, username) VALUES (:admin, :avatar, :created_at, :email, :full_name, :id, :password_hash, :subscriptions, :updated_at, :username)
DEBU[2018-03-20T15:39:44+01:00] INSERT INTO forums (created_at, description, id, logo, title, updated_at) VALUES (:created_at, :description, :id, :logo, :title, :updated_at)
The db:setup task created an admin user with (by default) a password admin.
You change that!
Buffalo ships with a command that will watch your application and automatically rebuild the Go binary and any assets for you.
That's useful when developing on saloon.
To do that run the "buffalo dev" command:
$> buffalo dev
If you point your browser to http://127.0.0.1:3000 you should see a "Welcome to the Saloon Forum" page.
In production, one can instead directly run the saloon executable:
$> saloon
INFO[0000] Starting application at 127.0.0.1:3000
INFO[2018-03-20T15:40:31+01:00] Starting Simple Background Worker
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