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[[!meta title="Machine Booking System (mbs)"]]
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The machine booking system allows users of the ETH Zurich to book machines.
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It could be easily adjusted to support other institutions, with or without
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LDAP authentication.
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2010-10-02 13:35:47 +00:00
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## Screenshots!
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* [booking overview](screenshots/booking-overview-screenshot-20101002.png "Overview of bookings")
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* [booking successful](screenshots/booking-successful-screenshot-20101002.png "Booking successful")
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* [booking error](screenshots/booking-error-screenshot-20101002.png "Booking error")
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* [free machines](screenshots/free-machines-screenshot-20101002.png "Free machines")
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* [used machines](screenshots/used-machines-screenshot-20101002.png "Used machines")
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* [admin view](screenshots/admin-screenshot-20101002.png "Admin view")
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2010-10-02 12:15:26 +00:00
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## Installation
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### Get mbs
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git clone git://git.schottelius.org/mbs
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2010-10-02 12:25:38 +00:00
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The backup url is **git://git.sans.ethz.ch/mbs**.
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2010-10-02 12:15:26 +00:00
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### Requirements
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To get mbs up and running, you need ruby and rails and the gems specified
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2010-10-02 12:20:31 +00:00
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in the Gemfile. You may use [rvm](http://rvm.beginrescueend.com/)
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to assist you, like the following commandline:
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rvm install ruby-1.8.7
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rvm ruby-1.8.7
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rvm gemset create mbs
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rvm ruby-1.8.7@mbs
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gem install bundler
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cd mbs/
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bundle install
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### Initialise Database
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2010-10-02 12:20:31 +00:00
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cd mbs
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rake db:setup
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You can also use
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rake bootstrap
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to add some example data.
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## Setup
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After mbs is up and running, you need to setup some basic data, before
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you can actually use it.
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### Authentication
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The authentication part is defined in
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**app/controllers/application_controller.rb** and currently bound to
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Nethz-LDAP-Authentication, but can easily be adopted to other
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systems.
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The nethz method uses the input username and password and binds to
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**ldaps02.ethz.ch** (most reliable). If that succeeds, the username
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is copied into the database, to create an id.
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### Machines types
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mbs is heavily focussed on machine types. So the first thing is to
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select ***admin => machine types => new machine type*** and create
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a new machine type with a number of associated machines.
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## Usage
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Now you are ready to use mbs!
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### Bookings
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After you are authenticated, you can create bookings,
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select **new booking**.
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### Admin
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The admin area is accessable for everybody, because everybody
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authenticated is trusted. It is reachable below **/admin**,
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but not linked, because it may confuse users.
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[[!tag eth]]
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