Bitcoin Central powers bitcoin-central.net, a bitcoin trading platform. It is :

• Open Source,

• Based on Ruby on Rails,

• Fully localizable,

• Multi-currency.

Linux and Windows setup work well, I found the easiest to be an Ubuntu install

• Install Ruby and MySQL

• Install Ruby Development Kit (github.com/oneclick/rubyinstaller/wiki/development-kit)

• Install rubygems

• Install required packages

$ sudo apt-get install ruby ruby-dev libssl-dev irb rubygems mysql

• Add gem binaries to path and re-login

# First line of /etc/environment should show something like this
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/var/lib/gems/1.8/bin"

• Update rubygems if necessary (programmers-blog.com/2009/04/12/ruby-gem-update-system-is-disabled-on-debian)

• Install rails and bundler

$ sudo gem install rails bundler

• Fork project if relevant

• Check out sources with git

• Install the required gems

$ cd [SOURCE PATH]
$ bundle

• Log-in to MySQL console and run the following

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON bitcoin-bank_development.* TO 'rails'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'rails';

• Run a couple of rake tasks

$ rake db:create
$ rake db:migrate

• Edit config/bitcoin.yml to be able to connect your instance to a bitcoin client

• Run the rails server

$ rails s

Your fresh instance should now be running on localhost:3000/ !

All are welcome, improvements, fixes and translations (the string extraction bounty has been paid).

AGPL License. Copyright 2010-2011 David FRANCOIS