Cope with not having a layer configuration at all.

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 This is the OpenStreetMap rails server codebase. Documentation is currently extremely incomplete. Please help by writing docs and moving any SQL you see to use models etc.
 This is the OpenStreetMap rails server codebase. Documentation is currently extremely incomplete. Please help by writing docs and moving any SQL you see to use models etc.

+
+=INSTALL
+
+* Get rails working (http://www.rubyonrails.org/)
+* Make your db (see db/README)
+* Install ruby libxml bindings:
+    sudo apt-get install libxml-ruby1.8 libxml-parser-ruby1.8
+* Install primary keys plugin for active record (minimum version 0.9.1)
+    sudo gem install composite_primary_keys
+* Make sure you have a MTA listening on localhost:25 if you want mail
+    sudo apt-get install exim4
+* Start the server
+    script/server
+* Thats it
+
+=API CHANGES FOR EDITOR AUTHORS
+
+See
+
+http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/REST#Changes_in_the_upcoming_0.4_API
+
+=HACKING
+
+* Log in to your site (proably localhost:3000)
+* Create a user and confirm it
+* You want to play with the API (probably at http://localhost:3000/api/0.5/node/create etc)
+* Lots of tests are needed to test the API.
+* Lots of little things to make the site work like the old one.
+
+=Bugs
+
+See the 'rails_port' component for bugs:
+http://trac.openstreetmap.org/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&component=rails_port&order=priority