steps taken

steps.txt

tar jxf bdsm-0.0.6.tar.bz2
cd bdsm-0.0.6
sudo ./install

sudo -i -u test

bdsm bdsmrc
vi ~/.bdsmrc (edit the repository)

bdsm rails setup --database mysql
. .bashrc (after adding the below line to it)
[[ -s "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm" ]] && source "$HOME/.rvm/scripts/rvm"  # This loads RVM into a shell session.
rvm install 1.8.7 (or ree)
rvm ree --default

(maybe ln -l /var/run/mysql... /tmp/mysql.sock)

cd ~test/shared/
git clone http://project...url test

bdsm deploy

rvm rubygems 1.3.7

(for radiant, cd ~/shared/test/config/; cp database.mysql.yml database.yml)

then cd ~/shared/test
rake gems:install  (might need to gem install rack -v=1.1.0 before, and rvm create gemset something before that)

etc