templates/new-instance/README.md
# My Houston
##### Mission Control for your projects and team
Houston interfaces with your version-control, ticket-tracking, continuous integration, and other systems to stitch together a picture of your projects and teams.
It makes it easy to set up **triggers** and **notifications** like:
- Resolving an exception report when a commit that mentions it is deployed
- Slacking team members when a pull request is labeled or unlabeled
- Notifying a committer when their commit breaks a test
And it provides a foundation for custom views like **dashboards** and **reports**.
Houston is also extensible through **modules**.
## Getting Started with Houston
##### System Requirements
To use Houston, you must have
- [Ruby 2.0+](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads)
- [Postgres 9.3+](http://www.postgresql.org/download)
##### Hello World
1. ~~Install houston-core~~
2. ~~Generate an instance of Houston~~
3. Modify `config/database.yml` to connect to your database (See [the Rails Guide](http://guides.rubyonrails.org/configuring.html#configuring-a-database) for examples)
4. Set up your database
bin/setup
5. Start Houston
bundle exec rails server