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Development environment

... on Debian/Ubuntu

Install package dependencies and set up Ruby 1.9.3 with RVM.

$ sudo apt-get install \
    autoconf \
    automake \
    bison \
    build-essential \
    curl \
    git-core \
    imagemagick \
    libc6-dev \
    libpq-dev \
    libreadline6 \
    libreadline6-dev \
    libsqlite3-dev \
    libssl-dev \
    libtool \
    libxml2-dev \
    libxslt-dev \
    libyaml-dev \
    ncurses-dev \
    openssl \
    postgresql \
    zlib1g \
    zlib1g-dev

$ curl -L get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby
$ ruby -v
ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-linux]

PS. For RVM to work properly with gnome-terminal, you have to tick the "Run command as login shell" checkbox on the "Title and Command" tab inside of gnome-terminal's Settings page.

Next, create the database user:

$ sudo su - postgres
$ createuser hdo --no-superuser --no-createrole --createdb
$ logout

To allow Rails to connect, edit /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/pg_hba.conf as root and change the line for Unix domain socket from "peer" to "trust":

 # "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
-local   all             all                                     peer
+local   all             all                                     trust

Then restart the database:

$ sudo su postgres -c "/etc/init.d/postgresql restart"

... on OS X

You'll need XCode installed.

Install Ruby 1.9.3 through RVM:

$ curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable --ruby

Install dependencies through Homebrew:

This list may be incomplete. Please add any missing libs you find.

$ brew install git imagemagick postgresql

Follow brew's post-install instructions for PostgreSQL. Typically you want to run the initdb and the launchtl ("load on login") commands.

Note: If you're on OS X >= 10.7 and get a connection error when preparing the database, try these steps:

• Run echo $PATH | tr ':' '\n' and make sure /usr/local/bin comes before /usr/bin.
• Open a new shell and try there.
• Check this post.

Preparing the database:

Create the "hdo" user with the createuser script:

$ sudo su - postgres # NB: Linux only.
$ createuser hdo --no-superuser --no-createrole --createdb

Starting the application:

$ git clone git://github.com/holderdeord/hdo-site.git
$ cd hdo-site
$ gem install bundler
$ [sudo] bundle install
$ cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
$ bundle exec rake db:setup
$ bundle exec rails server

Data

Import data for development:

• A subset from data.stortinget.no:

    $ bundle exec rake import:dev
  

Data model

To generate an entity-relationship diagram from the database:

$ bundle exec rake erd

# or

$ bundle exec rake erd title="HDO Data Model"

This will generate ERD.pdf.

Set up images:

Run this task:

$ bundle exec rake images:all

This will download representative images and associate party logos with the imported parties.

Running specs:

To run all specs and buster.js tests:

$ bundle exec rake spec:all

To run all Ruby specs:

$ bundle exec rake spec

To run only JS tests:

$ bundle exec rake spec:js

You can also run specific specs, i.e. model, controller or request specs with e.g.:

$ bundle exec rake spec:models

Run affected specs automatically when files change:

$ bundle exec guard

JavaScript:

Testing

We use buster.js for JavaScript testing.

To run the tests you need to have buster.js installed. Buster.JS on the command-line requires Node 0.6.3 or newer and NPM. Node 0.6.3 and newer comes with NPM bundled on most platforms.

Install buster and autolint:

$ npm install -g buster autolint

To run the tests once:

$ bundle exec rake js:test

You can also run the buster server in the background and capture your local browser:

$ buster server &

Then open http://localhost:1111 in your favorite browser.

To add more tests, update the config in spec/buster.js.

Linting

$ npm install -g autolint
$ bundle exec rake js:lint

Deployment

Our own servers are set up with Puppet, using the code from the hdo-puppet repo.

For test environments, deploying to Heroku should work:

$ [sudo] gem install heroku
$ heroku login
$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master
$ heroku run rake db:setup import:dev

One caveat: since Heroku doesn't allow writing to the file system, Dragonfly won't work properly.