community.hackerschool.com

Development dependencies

• Ruby 2.1.2
  • bundler
  • foreman
• Postgres 9.3.4
• redis
• leiningen

Installing dependencies on OS X using rvm, Homebrew, and Postgres.app

We recommend Postgres.app if you're on OS X.

Ruby stuff using rvm:

$ rvm get head
$ rvm install ruby-2.1.2
$ rvm use ruby-2.1.2
$ gem install bundler
$ gem install foreman

Leiningen and redis using Homebrew:

$ brew update
$ brew install leiningen
$ brew install redis
# follow the printed instructions to have redis start automatically on boot

Development configuration

We use foreman which sets environment variables from a .env file. We don't check this into version control because it contains secret information. Here is a sample .env file to get you started:

PORT=5001
RACK_ENV=development
DATABASE_URL=postgres://localhost/community_development
REDIS_URL=redis://localhost:6379

HACKER_SCHOOL_CLIENT_ID=your_client_id
HACKER_SCHOOL_CLIENT_SECRET=your_client_secret

# If you want to develop against a local copy of the Hacker School API, add:
HACKER_SCHOOL_SITE=http://localhost:5000

# If you want to import accounts from Hacker School
# (You won't be able to do this unless you are Hacker School faculty)
HACKER_SCHOOL_API_SECRET_TOKEN=hacker_school_api_secret

To generate a Hacker School client id and secret, go to your Hacker School settings page and make a new OAuth app. The redirect url should be http://localhost:5001/login/complete (or your development host name if you don't develop off of localhost).

Running the code

$ bundle
...snip...
$ foreman start

# In another terminal:
$ cd client
$ lein cljsbuild auto

Where is db/schema.rb?

Look at db/structure.sql instead. We use this because it supports Postgres views.

License

Copyright © 2014 Hacker School

This software is licensed under the terms of the AGPL, Version 3. The complete license can be found at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html.