Automating the Cachet installation

[nalysius]

Hi,

On Slack I discussed with someone that needed to automate the installation of Cachet, and because I'm interested by this feature I create this issue in order to contribute then.

The command app:install creates the tables in the database, but does not fill the settings nor the users table.
I would like to add an optional parameter (or create a subclass) to app:install in order to give as parameter the path to a file that contains the settings to write into the database. So, the installation would be fully automated.

For now even after executing app:install the database is empty, so it's mandatory to launch the setup page that asks for a user, mail drivers, app name and so on.
Also if I've already set the .env file with Cache driver, Mail driver and so on, is it required to ask for them on the setup page? Or at least pre-fill the select box could be a help.

I've looked in the app/Console/Command directory but all the commands inside are cachet:* and I don't know where the app:install command is located. Also, do you have guidelines about that? Like the usage of a json or any other file type to manage this configuration.

Regards,

Cachet 2.4
Commit number 2d8bf2f

[jbrooksuk]

@anthonybocci app:install is setup by https://github.com/GrahamDeprecated/Laravel-Core

I did start a fully automated solution in #2290 with @joecohens extending it to create the user in #2291

[nalysius]

Hi @jbrooksuk and thank you for your comment.

I've looked at the command cachet:install and if it does all the job it's absolutely great! But I have one question though, the line !$this->confirm('Do you want to install Cachet?') asks for the confirmation.
Is there a command line argument that we could supply line -y in order to fully automated installation?

[jbrooksuk]

Yeah, that could be added to the command. Do you want to handle that yourself? We just need a flag which skips any confirmations with a default of yes.

[jbrooksuk]

Alternatively, you could pipe into yes?

[nalysius]

Indeed it could be piped to yes, you're right. So this is absolutely not a priority, but I think it would be nice if a flag could be given.
I'll have a look to that when I'll have time.

[jbrooksuk]

👍

[jbrooksuk]

Updated the labels :)

[GrahamCampbell]

Replaced by #3379.