Host your own Diaspora POD with OpenShift for free!

Ubuntu based instructions, step by step (work in progress, will add screenshots soon)

1. First create an account on OpenShift
2. Install Ruby (all steps are on local system)
   

   $ sudo apt-get install ruby-full rubygems

3. Install git
   

   $ sudo git-core

4. After you install both Ruby and Git, verify they can be accessed via the command line:
   

   $ ruby -e 'puts "Welcome to Ruby"'
   Welcome to Ruby
   $ git --version
   git version 1.7.11.1

5. With Ruby and Git correctly installed, you can now use the RubyGems package manager to install the OpenShift client tools. From a command line, run:
   

   $ sudo gem install rhc

6. After the OpenShift client tools are installed, run:
   

   $ rhc setup

7. then run below command
8. If you have none yet generate a SSH keypar: ssh-keygen.
9. Create the application:

   rhc app create diaspora \
      ruby-1.9 mysql-5.5 \
      'http://cartreflect-claytondev.rhcloud.com/reflect?github=smarterclayton/openshift-redis-cart'
   

10. If it asks you to upload your SSH key, answer yes.
11. cd diaspora to change into the new repository.
12. Run the following commands:

    git remote add upstream git://github.com/MrZYX/diaspora-openshift.git
    git fetch upstream
    git reset --hard upstream/master
    git  push -f origin master
    

13. Grab a coffee.

Configuration

Configuration is done via environment variables. To change something from the default set them via rhc env set, see rhc help env. To see what's available, read config/diaspora.yml.example.

Adding yourself as an admin

After you created an account on your new diaspora* pod, you can make yourself an admin with: rhc ssh diaspora -- '/bin/bash -c "cd $OPENSHIFT_REPO_DIR; source .openshift/diaspora_configuration; bundle exec rails runner \\"Role.add_admin(User.where(username: \'yourusername\').person)\\""'.
Have look at my Diaspora* POD http://diaspora-malayalam.rhcloud.com

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