Installation
RhodeCode is written entirely in Python. In order to gain maximum performance there are some third-party you must install. When RhodeCode is used together with celery you have to install some kind of message broker, recommended one is rabbitmq to make the async tasks work.
Of course RhodeCode works in sync mode also and then you do not have to install any third party applications. However, using Celery will give you a large speed improvement when using many big repositories. If you plan to use RhodeCode for say 7 to 10 small repositories, RhodeCode will perform perfectly well without celery running.
If you make the decision to run RhodeCode with celery make sure you run celeryd using paster and message broker together with the application.
Installing RhodeCode from Cheese Shop
Rhodecode requires python version 2.5 or higher.
The easiest way to install rhodecode is to run:
easy_install rhodecode
Or:
pip install rhodecode
If you prefer to install RhodeCode manually simply grab latest release from http://pypi.python.org/pypi/rhodecode, decompress the archive and run:
python setup.py install
Step by step installation example
Assuming you have installed virtualenv create a new virtual environment using virtualenv:
virtualenv --no-site-packages /var/www/rhodecode-venv
Note
Using --no-site-packages when generating your virtualenv is very important. This flag provides the necessary isolation for running the set of packages required by RhodeCode. If you do not specify --no-site-packages, it's possible that RhodeCode will not install properly into the virtualenv, or, even if it does, may not run properly, depending on the packages you've already got installed into your Python's "main" site-packages dir.
this will install new virtualenv into /var/www/rhodecode-venv.
Activate the virtualenv by running:
source /var/www/rhodecode-venv/bin/activate
Note
If you're using UNIX, do not use sudo to run the virtualenv script. It's perfectly acceptable (and desirable) to create a virtualenv as a normal user.
Make a folder for rhodecode somewhere on the filesystem for example:
mkdir /var/www/rhodecode
Run this command to install rhodecode:
easy_install rhodecode
This will install rhodecode together with pylons and all other required python libraries
Requirements for Celery (optional)
Note
Installing message broker and using celery is optional, RhodeCode will work perfectly fine without them.
Message Broker
For installation instructions you can visit: http://ask.github.com/celery/getting-started/index.html. This is a very nice tutorial on how to start using celery with rabbitmq