Installing on Gentoo

Step 1: emerge the required ebuilds

 emerge nodejs mysql git libxslt ruby rubygems redis

Step 2: install rails and bundler through ruby gems

 gem update --system 
 gem install rails 
 gem install bundler

Step 3: configure and start mysql database

Configure and start mysqld. Create database needed for diaspora and the user which has full access to the database. Gentoo MySQL Startup Guide can help a lot if you have never deployed MySQL database on Gentoo.

Don't forget to run /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation if this is fresh install of mysql server. It is recommended to disable connections to mysqld from outside localhost. This is default configuration which can be validated by checking netstat -l output.

In the further steps we'll refer to this MySQL database (where Disapora meta data is stored) as pod and the corresponding MySQL user as pod.