Setting up Open Source Billing, some extra steps I had to take, if you plan to set it up.

Hi Folks,

I'm in the process of evaluating : http://opensourcebilling.org/

It looks pretty sweet, but boy was their installation documentation painfully inaccurate. It's supposedly written for Ubuntu 14.04, but I found the issues to be the same in 16.04 too. I was able to finally get it setup with 16.04, and I'm now evaluating it.

If you want to set it up, these are some adjustments that you should consider:

1. You'll probably need to install cmake, I needed it for a few gem install steps.
2. Use ruby 2.1.8, any lower version gave me problems at multiple steps.
3. You'll need to edit the Gemlist to set mysql2 to '0.3.20', otherwise later db actions will barf.
4. Follow the later steps for copying config.yml into place, and do this before the db steps. Some of the db steps didn't complete for me until I did this.
5. In the config/environments/ folder, there's a bunch of files with ".copy" as the final extension. Copy them into place so they're ".rb" (as in, remove the .copy extension on the new files). I am unsure if this is a required step, but it eliminated some complaints I was getting in some db steps.

This looks like the only outstanding steps thus far. I figured I would share what I found, since it took me about 1.5 days of rebuilding just to get these steps. Hopefully this helps someone save time.

Have fun!