• rake db:setup_yml
• rake ldap:setup

• To get mailer working, you must include an smtp_settings.rb file in the config directory, which is of the following format:

@@smtp_username = "[email protected]"
@@smtp_pw = "yourpassword"

Note that additional configuration modification may be necessary in config/application.rb and/or the config/environments/<environment>.rb configuration files, i.e. if not using Gmail for SMTP.

• Have a way to refer to the root url of the site at all times, whether it be on localhost:3000 or on the production server. There may already be a way to do this in Rails or at least in our app, but for instance, in Job Mailer, we shouldn't be manually typing "localhost:3000" into here.
• In config/initializers/, don't forget to add secret_token.rb, which should contain:

    # config/initializers/secret_token.rb
    ResearchMatch::Application.config.secret_token = 'my long token that could be generated by rake secret'

• To refer to the root URL of the app (which will vary depending on the RAILS_ENV used), refer to the global constant ROOT_URL. It's defined in config/initializers/application_constants.rb.