updn | Reddit-alike where submissions and voting use Bitcoin | Hacking library

This has been tested using Ruby 2.1+ on Arch and LMDE installs using SQLite 3. It should work fine in other scenarios, but I can't make any promises.
Download Bitcoin or bitcoind and enable the server option and supply rpcuser and rpcpassword in bitcoin.conf. The entire Bitcoin blockchain can take hours to download. The site should still function as long as the daemon is accessible, you simply will not see the most recent transactions until that part of the blockchain has been downloaded.
Install Ruby as well as other dependencies. Supported Ruby versions include 1.9.3, 2.0.0 and 2.1.0. On Debian: sudo apt-get install ruby rubygems ruby-dev libmysqlclient-dev libsqlite3-dev
Checkout the updn git tree from Github $ git clone git://github.com/aaron-lebo/updn.git $ cd updn
Install/run Bundler to install/bundle gems needed by the project: updn$ sudo gem install bundler updn$ bundle
Adjust config/initializers/bitcoin.rb to use the username/password provided in bitcoin.conf.
Create an SQLite 3 (other DBs supported by ActiveRecord may work) database, username, and password and put them in a config/database.yml file: development: adapter: sqlite3 database: db/test.sqlite3 pool: 5 timeout: 5000
Load the schema into the new database: updn$ rake db:schema:load
Create a config/initializers/secret_token.rb file, using a randomly generated key from the output of rake secret: Lobsters::Application.config.secret_token = 'your random secret here'
(Optional, only needed for the search engine) Install Sphinx. Build Sphinx config and start server: updn$ rake ts:rebuild
Define your site's name and default domain, which are used in various places, in a config/initializers/production.rb or similar file: class << Rails.application def domain "example.com" end def name "Example News" end end Rails.application.routes.default_url_options[:host] = Rails.application.domain
Create an initial administrator user and at least one tag: updn$ rails console Loading development environment (Rails 3.2.6) irb(main):001:0> u = User.new(:username => "test", :email => "test@example.com", :password => "test", :password_confirmation => "test") irb(main):002:0> u.is_admin = true irb(main):003:0> u.is_moderator = true irb(main):004:0> u.save irb(main):005:0> t = Tag.new irb(main):006:0> t.tag = "test" irb(main):007:0> t.save
Run the Rails server in development mode. You should be able to login to http://localhost:3000 with your new test user: updn$ rails server