= README FOR QUAINTANCE

Updated 4/1/07

Hi there! Thanks for downloading Quaintance. 

== WHAT IS QUAINTANCE?

It's a web-based contact manager that uses Web 2.0 goodness to do all the stuff you've come to expect from web tools, such as tagging and RSS feeds. It is maintained by Dan Kurtz, and was funded by a Student Experience Project grant from the Open Source | Open Access project at the University of Toronto.

As of now, the functionality is not very mature, and you may not find the things you're used to finding in address book applications, like searching. Feel free to submit patches to andfurthermoreATgmailDOTcom.

== INSTALLATION

Right now, installation is a tricky process. You need to:

1. Install Ruby on Rails and a DBMS

2. Get the Quaintance source from Subversion

3. Copy config/database.yml.sample to config/database.yml

4. Create a Quaintance database

5. Edit config/database.yml to point to the database you just created (with the right credentials)

6. Run rake migrate

Now you're good to go!

Or, if you're not, email me.