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  1. Install
  1. Run locally
  2. Run tests
  3. Issues
  4. [Sam's ubuntu install notes from EC2](Installation#sams ubuntu install notes from ec2)
  5. [Pair Programming with screen/ec2 notes](Installation#pair Programming with screenec2 notes)

Install

Vagrant and VirtualBox (the short way)

The simplest way to get started is to use Vagrant with VirtualBox. See the Vagrant Install instructions.

Ubuntu and VirtualBox (the medium way)

Another way to get started is to use Ubuntu with VirtualBox inside virtual machine (similar to VM used in CS169.x). See the Ubuntu Image Install instructions.

Manual Installation (the long way)

In order to work on LocalSupport, please fork and clone the project.

  1. Install Ruby 1.9.3-p484 (we haven't migrated to Ruby 2 yet)
  2. Fork the http://github.com/AgileVentures/LocalSupport repo (fork button at top right of github web interface)
  3. Clone the new forked repo onto your dev machine
  4. cd LocalSupport
  5. Install Qt webkit headers - see capybara-webkit gem below
  6. Install postgreSQL - see PostgreSQL install instructions below
  7. Install X virtual frame buffer
sudo apt-get install xvfb

For Debian 7 users, please follow these instructions to launch Xvfb as daemon : (https://github.com/tansaku/LocalSupport/wiki/Xvfb-on-Debian-7)

  1. git checkout develop
  2. Run bundle install to get the gems
  3. Run the following to get the database set up and import seed data
bundle exec rake db:create
bundle exec rake db:migrate
bundle exec rake db:categories
bundle exec rake db:seed
bundle exec rake db:cat_org_import
bundle exec rake db:pages
bundle exec rake db:import:emails[db/emails.csv]

If you hit problems, review issues below, and ask us on Skype.

[Note that rvm can be extremely helpful for managing ruby versions. Installing rvm on Ubuntu]

Run locally

and then in principle you can run rails server and see that app running locally.

The db/seeds.rb task that you ran added some organizations and a test user that you can experiment with. Read that file for more information.

Run tests

Also you should run the specs and cucumber features to make sure your installation is solid. For confidence, you shall prepare the test database first by running rake db:test:prepare, then run tests using following commands:

bundle exec rake spec
bundle exec rake cucumber

and then when you start any BDD or TDD ensure autotest is running in the background:

bundle exec rake autotest

Issues

PostgreSQL Install

####Linux

sudo apt-get install libpq-dev

####OSX

Install the pg gem. You’ll need to include the following options to set your path and include the needed headers:

gem install pg -- --with-pg-config=/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.3/bin/pg_config --with-pg-include='/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.3/include/'

Note: before you run this, check that the paths for pg_config and include are correct, and adjust them as needed. Example: If your application is named Postgres93, then “Postgres.app” will need to be changed to “Postgres93.app” in both places.

install: http://postgresapp.com/

We recommend installing: http://postgresapp.com/

  1. First error is usually "role 'postgres' does not exist (PG::ConnectionBad)"

  2. Resolve this by running CREATE USER postgres CREATEDB; from the psql prompt (click the elephant icon and select "open psql" OR createuser -s -r postgres from command line if you have psql in your path

Another error occurs on OSX without "host: localhost" in the database.yml could not connect to server: No such file or directory Is the server running locally and accepting connections on Unix domain socket "/var/pgsql_socket/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

Postgres may have put its socket in an unexpected place, such as /private/tmp, and it may be a hidden file. In this example below, we symlink it to where it needs to be.

sudo mkdir /var/pgsql_socket/ 
sudo ln -s /private/tmp/.s.PGSQL.5432 /var/pgsql_socket/

if psql doesn't run from the command line try: add export PATH="/usr/local/bin:$PATH" to your .bash_profile to make sure you are talking to the postgres.app that's installed rather than the non-running postgresql that comes with OSX

OSX no longer needs host: localhost in database.yml if you export PG_HOST=localhost in .bash_profile

####Could not connect to server: No such file or directory

could not connect to server: No such file or directory
	Is the server running locally and accepting
	connections on Unix domain socket "/var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432"?

If you receive this error run

sudo apt-get install postgresql

####Peer authentication fails for user postgres

On Ubuntu, you will likely encounter an error with the following message:

authentication failed for user "postgres"

The underlying problem is that postgres is set up to authenticate postgresql usernames based on the Linux usernames. But your Linux user is not likely called "postgres" like the yml configuration is setup to login as on LS.

If you search around, you will likely find links telling you to change authentication methods and use a password. But you can actually stick with peer authentication and the little bit of added security of only having local connections by doing the following:

You must edit the pg_hba.conf file to use a map with peer authentication (more on this here[http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/auth-username-maps.html]). The location of this file may vary depending on your installation but may be under /etc/postgresql/9.1/main/pg_hba.conf (where 9.1 depends on your version). You should change the line in the file that reads as follows:

local all postgres peer

You want to edit it to be :

local all postgres peer map=basic

This will use a map called basic that you will set up next (you can change the name of the map as long as you change it in the next step as well).

Now you want to edit the file pg_ident.conf (same directory as the previous file) to include the following line: basic saasbook postgres

This will map your Linux system name (in my example saasbook if you're using the VM) to the name expected by postgres.

You now need to restart the postgre service so that it takes to the new configuration. In the terminal run this command:

sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql restart

Now you should be able to locally authenticate with postgres and no password.

Alternatively, if you are not too concerned with security, you can just change the authentication type to trust:

# Database administrative login by Unix domain socket
local   all   postgres      trust

# TYPE  DATABASE        USER            ADDRESS                 METHOD
# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all             all                                     trust
# IPv4 local connections:
host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            trust
# IPv6 local connections:
host    all             all             ::1/128                 md5

this will allow any local connection to the database to be established without a password.

Illformed requirement issue

You will likely encounter this error:

 Installing rdoc (3.12.2) Invalid gemspec in [/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/specifications/ZenTest-4.9.0.gemspec]: Illformed requirement ["< 2.1, >= 1.8"]

Resolution described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15006181/zentest-errors-preventing-autotest-from-running/15006306#15006306 Also mentioned here with alternate solution https://github.com/seattlerb/zentest/issues/40 NOTE: stable fix appears to involve: "upgrade rubygems, uninstall zentest and reinstall zentest." (If you don't want to edit the gemspec file, you will need rubygems version 1.8.24 or later.)

If you use rvm, then the command to upgrade rubygems is

rvm rubygems current

Invalid gemspec issue

One issue that someone has encountered is as follows:

I cloned the latest code on the github repo and running bundle install --without production seems to barf with many invalid gemspecs pointing to the 1.9.1 ruby installation seems I had to revert back to rubygem 1.8.24 And to get tests to pass, I had to run it via rake spec, which required editing gemfile to include 'rails-rspec' under :test, :development

As is suggested by starfry's comment on stackoverflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12159402/should-i-use-rake-spec-or-rspec-cant-get-rake-spec-to-work          

... it seems to use development db when you run via spec

As per the documentation for rspec-rails,

It needs to be in the :development group to expose generators and rake tasks without having to type RAILS_ENV=test.

Lack of JS runtime

Another issue that has been encountered is the following:

lack of JS runtime when running rake db:create' to the project 'LocalSupport'.

The following stackoverflow link contains the solution which is to add the execjs and therubyracer gems to the Gemfile, although we are not yet clear why this error sometimes crops up ...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9057475/rake-dbcreate-could-not-find-a-javascript-runtime

capybara-webkit gem

The capybara-webkit gem needs the Qt toolchain (including qmake and the webkit library and header files). You want version 4.8 or later. To install them in Ubuntu release 12.04 LTS "precise pangolin", or later, run:

 sudo apt-get install libqtwebkit-dev

This command also works on Debian 7.

If you have an older version of Ubuntu, you can install a new version from scratch, or upgrade with sudo do-release-upgrade. If on Amazon EC2, see (this article)[http://gregrickaby.com/safely-update-an-ubuntu-ec2-instance-on-amazon-aws/]

For other platforms, see http://qt-project.org/downloads.

Note that on Mac, even after performing the aforementioned install, you are likely to need to install something else to get the qmake build tool. Install Homebrew, if you don't have it already, then run brew install qt. Then you should be able to run gem install capybara-webkit -v '1.0.0' successfully.

After that try running bundle install again.

Warning: Nokogiri was built against LibXML version 2.8.0, but has dynamically loaded 2.9.0

You will likely encounter this warning while running the specs and features. To solve this you need to run

 bundle exec gem pristine nokogiri

What this basically does is that it recompiles the gem's C extensions. While running this, if you face the error ... you dont have write permissions ...

Run the command with sudo

sudo bundle exec gem pristine nokogiri

Postgres encoding does not match locale

If, when you try to create database tables, you see errors like this

PG::InvalidParameterValue: ERROR:  encoding UTF8 does not match locale en_GB

our notes on PostgreSQL problems in Debian may help you.

No source for ruby-1.9. ...

In 2014, David came across this error when running bundle install (under rvm on Debian)

No source for ruby-1.9.3-p545 provided with debugger-ruby_core_source gem.
...
Make sure that `gem install debugger -v '1.6.1'` succeeds before bundling.

The fix seems to be simply to run

gem install debugger
bundle install

and repeat for any other gems that stop your bundle install task.

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Sam's ubuntu install notes from EC2

 sudo apt-get install ruby-dev
 sudo apt-get install libpq-dev
 sudo apt-get install libicu-dev

as well as some things above, and also need some xvfb as well

 sudo apt-get install xvfb
 Xvfb :1 -screen 0 1280x768x24 &
 export DISPLAY=:1

Apparently one can search packages.ubuntu.com to see which packages are missing to run cucumber tests successfully we used:

 bundle exec rake cucumber

Also we needed https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-ruby-on-rails-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts-precise-pangolin-with-rvm to get rvm sorted

Pair Programming with screen/ec2 notes

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