Fair Use Tool

Fair Use Tool is an interactive online tool that will be accessible for middle-school students and their teachers. The main goal of the tool is designing and coding web application with Interactive and User-friendly Interface for teaching a playful way of how to use copyrighted content in accordance with fair use policy.

Requirements

Main requirments

• ruby 1.9.3

• mysql 14.14

• rails 3.2.5

Paperclip requirments

• ImageMagick 6.6.9

• Ghostscript 9.05

Installation

• First fork the repository to your own GitHub account by clicking the fork button:

• Clone it to your local own machine:

  git clone https://github.com/your_username/fut.git

• Navigate to the newly created project directory:

  cd fut
  

• After you are all set up with main requirements above, run bundlle command to install the required gems

  bundle install
  

• Before creating database don’t forget to edit the config/database.yml file to include the right socket, username and password for your MySQL server

• Create the database

  rake db:create
  

• Then run the migrations

  rake db:migrate
  

• Finally run the seed command to fill the database with initial data

  rake db:seed
  

• Congratulations, You’re almost done! Now run the server and open the site in your web browser ‘localhost:3000’

  rails s thin
  

License

• Fair Use Tool project is licensed under The MIT License.

• Copyright © 2012 by Karim El Husseiny <[email protected]>