Gru is an open source adaptive test system for screening candidates for software engineering roles. It helps us identify and recruit the right minions.
You can read more about why we built Gru on our blog. Gru uses Dgraph as the database.
- Get the Gru code and checkout the develop branch.
- go get github.com/dgraph-io/gru
- cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/dgraph-io/gru
- git checkout develop
- Start Dgraph on port 8080. Note we are currently building and using Dgraph from the master right now. So you can build Dgraph from source or ask us for the Dgraph binary for Linux/Mac.
- Start the admin backend from gru directory like
go build . && ./gru -user=admin -pass=pass -secret=0a45e5eGseF41o0719PJ39KljMK4F4v2. Note we use sendgrid for sending invite mails to the candidates. That won't work without the sendgrid key. For development purposes when the--sendgridflag is empty, we just print out the invite link for taking the quiz to the console. - We use Caddy as the Web server and run it on port 2020 locally. You can install
caddy and then run it from inside admin/webUI using
caddycommand. You can checkout the Caddyfile in the folder for config for Caddy. The easiest method to install caddy is using https://getcaddy.com/.
After this Gru should be up and running for you. You can visit http://localhost:2020 and use
admin as username and pass as password for logging in. Go ahead and add some questions, create some quizzes and invite some candidates.
