How to get a historic version of Canvas up and running. Other than a few specific points, these tips may be useful for other Rails apps.
- provision a linux VM (see MACOS_NOTE at the end of this document)
- if you are using Multipass, be sure to set up adequate disk space (e.g.
multipass launch --disk 30G
), since the 5GB default will not be sufficient and there is no way to increase it after the fact. don't ask me how I know this. also use--mem 8G
or thereabouts because the 1GB default is also not enough (you can change this after the fact, but it involves editing a json file buried in a directory you need sudo to get into)
- if you are using Multipass, be sure to set up adequate disk space (e.g.
- pull down the repo
- set up rvm and chruby