i have some installation instructions about a script but i cant understand it..even though i dont have know about rails etc. please if anyone extract the installation steps i will be very grateful. thanks just explain the steps little bit i will try to learn ..thanks where to install rails? at my server or computer??? various gems? memcached? sphinx what is git function and how to do this??? what does rake mean???? Completely incomplete installation instructions: install rails 2.3.2 install various gems (check environment.rb) install memcached install sphinx git clone git://github.com/jgilliam/nationbuilder.git git submodule init git submodule update Create your database and configure config/database.yml for your database server and remove the .dist. You should also change the session_key and secret_key to something unique. Load the database: rake db:schema:load Remove the .dist from the various config files in config/ and configure them appropriately config/contacts.yml -- for the contact importer config/newrelic.yml -- for new relic config/nb.yml -- you probably won't want to change anything on this config/amazon_fps.yml -- not used right now, but will soon add cron jobs based on the example in config/crontab.dist Start the server and load up your browser. The first screen will ask you for a few basic things about your nation. Once you're through with that, you'll be ready to go. There are a lot more settings under Settings > Nation Settings. To enable Facebook integration: Go to Facebook developer's site and create an application. Under "Connect" options, be sure to put the domain you are using. The API key and secret key go in your database.yml file. rake facebook:register_templates