Hi Bill, Thanks for the kind words. It's kind of a complicated setup if you've never worked with this kind of app before, sorry about that.
To answer your questions (sorry they're pretty general, I just haven't used debian all that much): > Dependencies: > > - PostgreSQL 9.0 or greater, right? > - Ruby xxx or greater? > - ledger xxx? (I'm running 2.6.2, which came with my Debian) > - anything else? PostgreSQL 9.0 or greater so you can use the really nice window functions included in that version. I'm running Ruby 1.9.x. I use Ledger 3.0.x. There's no reason you can't use 2.6.2, but you'll have to change the format in your config to be 2.6.2 compatible. You shouldn't need anything else. > > Steps: > > - Install ledger_web using gem as root? as me? > - Create the ledger database as me, postgres, root, ...? > - Run ledger_web as me, postgres, root, ...? > - Possible interactions with NoScript and ABE and their proper configuration Installing everything as root shouldn't hurt anything. You should run ledger_web as yourself, and you should create the database as yourself. Ledger_web *should* gracefully degrade if you don't have any javascript but the table sorting depends on it. If possible, grant an exception for localhost:9090 in NoScript. > > I got confused on the first three steps by seeing the $ in the prompt, > suggesting (to me) running them all as me. Given that no one else has > asked, I'm sure these are easy questions with obvious answers. I just > don't know them, and I hope not to have to learn Ruby and PostgreSQL > admin in detail before running ledger_web. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I think no one has asked because nobody else is using it :) --Pete
