pageman / fat_free_crm

Ruby on Rails CRM platform for Web 2.0 and beyond

Welcome to Fat Free CRM!¶ ↑

Fat Free CRM is next generation open source CRM platform. Active development has started in November 2008; new features, enhancements, and updates appear on daily basis.

Here are the steps to get Fat Free CRM up and running on your system.

System Requirements¶ ↑

• Ruby v1.8.7 or v1.9.2

• Ruby on Rails v2.3.8

• MySQL v4.1.1 or later (v5+ is recommended) or SQLite v3.4 or later

• ImageMagick (optional, only if you would like to use avatars)

Downloads¶ ↑

• Git source code repository: git://github.com/michaeldv/fat_free_crm.git

• .zip or .tgz archives: github.com/michaeldv/fat_free_crm/downloads

Resources¶ ↑

• Home page: www.fatfreecrm.com

• Online demo: demo.fatfreecrm.com

• Project page: github.com/michaeldv/fat_free_crm/tree/master

• Features and bugs: fatfreecrm.lighthouseapp.com

• Twitter commit updates: twitter.com/fatfreecrm

• Discussion group for users: groups.google.com/group/fat-free-crm-users

• Discussion group for developers: groups.google.com/group/fat-free-crm-dev

• IRC channel: #fatfreecrm on irc.freenode.net

Setting Up The Database¶ ↑

Fat Free CRM supports MySQL and SQLite databases. The source code comes with two sample database configuration files: config/database.mysql.yml for MySQL and config/database.sqlite.yml for SQLite. Based on your choice of the database create the actual database configuration file, for example:

$ cp config/database.mysql.yml config/database.yml

Edit config/database.yml and specify database names and authentication details. Once you have database configuration file ready run rake to create the database:

$ rake db:create

Setting Up The Application¶ ↑

The next step is to load default Fat Free CRM settings, such as menu structures, default colors, etc. and create the Admin user. This is done by running the following rake task:

$ rake crm:setup

Loading Demo Data¶ ↑

You can test drive Fat Free CRM by loading sample records that are generated on the fly mimic the actual use. IMPORTANT: loading demo will delete all the existing data.

$ rake crm:demo:load

Among other things the demo generator creates 8 sample user records with the following usernames: aaron, ben, cindy, dan, elizabeth, frank, george, and heather. You can log in with any of these names using the name as password. The demo site at demo.fatfreecrm.com provides access as a sample user as well.

You can reset the database and reload demo data at any time by using:

$ rake crm:demo:reload

Running The App¶ ↑

Now you should be able to launch the Rails server and point your web browser to localhost:3000

$ ruby script/server

When deploying with Phusion Passenger, also install Rack 1.0.1:

$ gem install rack -v 1.0.1

For Developers¶ ↑

Fat Free CRM can be customized by implementing callback hooks and extended by creating Rails Engines plugins. Check out these sample repositories demonstrating the concepts:

http://github.com/michaeldv/crm_sample_plugin/tree/master
http://github.com/michaeldv/crm_sample_tabs/tree/master
http://github.com/michaeldv/crm_web_to_lead/tree/master
http://github.com/michaeldv/crm_tags/tree/master

License¶ ↑

Copyright © 2008-2010 by Michael Dvorkin. All rights reserved.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

See LICENSE file for more details.