Dockerfile should build rules-engine

[thadk]

Right now the web app deployment only deploys an obsolete no-dependency python rules-engine file.
With the newest version of the Rules Engine in the repository, it is using a python package wheel (whl) file which needs to be built on every deployment.

The whl file is already getting built for use in the unit tests. The test is committed and passing.

But we can't use the Rules Engine whl file yet in the browser, and we'd like to. You can help.

We don't want to check in the whl file, but to build it "just-in-time" at the key places. There is a reference example to help you start. It runs whenever we do npm run test app/utils/pyodide.test.ts

Dockerfile build of the Python whl

• Practice with local deployment of Docker first but after you get comfortable, instead of mv Dockerfile ./heat-stack as it instructs, try moving it to the root of the project.
• Modify the heat-stack Dockerfile in a way so the ../rules-engine folder can do a build.
  • You need to figure out how to get the rules-engine folder into the built docker image.
• In the Dockerfile, add a line to run the equivalent of these build commands that are running before vitest in the other package.json example:

  home-energy-analysis-tool/heat-stack/package.json

  Line 23 in 0b6f2d1

  "test": "cd ../rules-engine && python3 -m venv venv && . venv/bin/activate && pip install -q build && python3 -m build && cd ../heat-stack && vitest",

• Copy the generated file from rules-engine/dist/rules_engine-*-py3-none-any.whl
  • to heat-stack/public/pyodide-env

Optional: Package.json enable npm run dev to build & copy the whl

• As a bonus task, modify the package.json dev line to build the whl just in time and place it in the same folder.
• add the built file to .gitignore

Fix Github Actions to match

• Fork the repository into your GitHub account so you can do tests of Github Actions silently.
  • One challenge is understanding all the places where working-directory are being modified in the early and deployment parts of the heat-stack Github Action file .
• Ask for the flyio staging deploy key for your GHA tests. Put the key in secrets as the documentation describes in step 5.
• Instead of moving the Dockerfile and .dockerignore to . which is currently ./heat-stack move it to the project root at

  home-energy-analysis-tool/.github/workflows/heat-stack.yml

  Lines 182 to 183 in 7fc77ab

  	mv ./other/Dockerfile ./Dockerfile
  	mv ./other/.dockerignore ./.dockerignore

[zganger]

I'm looking to onboard on this project and I have experience in python and in automation. I could take this one.

[thadk]

Hi @zganger, thanks for that note and welcome! Let me know what parts sound interesting.

I think Greg (@thatoldplatitude ) from the Rules Engine python team started on the Dockerfile part of this in #146 . @thatoldplatitude if you could compare and contrast your PR to what is described above that would be helpful.

I would like to pursue this issue as a subgroup and would be happy to set up non-tuesday night meeting(s) this next week or answer any questions on moving forward for the tasks above.

[thatoldplatitude]

Just getting to these tags.
We could for sure setup a non-tuesday meet -- sry wasn't available much this week.
But there are for sure a few ways to go about this. I assumed a few things:

• We'd be keeping the heat-stack & rules-engine workflow files separate (not needed, just did cause they are currently)
• Not moving the Dockerfile from the root heat-stack
• Using the pyodide-lock.json for pyodide imports(no changes I did impacted this)

But if we want to have separate meet, it may be easier for us to review options.