Mumuki Bibliotheca API

Storage and formatting API for guides

About

Bibliotheca is a service for storing Mumuki content - Books, Topics and Guides. Its main persistent media is MongoDB, but it is also capable of importing and exporting guides from a Github repository. Features:

• REST API
• Importing and exporting to a Github repository
• Listing and upserting guides in JSON format
• Pemissions validation
• Optional changes notifications to Aheneum

Preparing environment

1. Install essentials and base libraries

First, we need to install some software: PostgreSQL database, RabbitMQ queue, and some common Ruby on Rails native dependencies

sudo apt-get install autoconf curl git build-essential libssl-dev autoconf bison libreadline6 libreadline6-dev zlib1g zlib1g-dev postgresql libpq-dev rabbitmq-server

2. Install rbenv

rbenv is a ruby versions manager, similar to rvm, nvm, and so on.

curl -fsSL https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv-installer/raw/master/bin/rbenv-installer | bash
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.rbenv/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc # or .bash_profile
echo 'eval "$(rbenv init -)"' >> ~/.bashrc # or .bash_profile

3. Install ruby

Now we have rbenv installed, we can install ruby and bundler

rbenv install 2.3.1
rbenv global 2.3.1
rbenv rehash
gem install bundler

4. Clone this repository

Because, err... we need to clone this repostory before developing it 😛

git clone https://github.com/mumuki/mumuki-bibliotheca-api
cd mumuki-bibliotheca-api

5. Install and setup database

We need to create a PostgreSQL role - AKA a user - who will be used by Laboratory to create and access the database

# create db user for linux users
sudo -u postgres psql <<EOF
  create role mumuki with createdb login password 'mumuki';
EOF

# create db user for mac users
psql postgres
#once inside postgres server
create role mumuki with createdb login password 'mumuki';

# create schema and initial development data
./devinit

Installing and Running

Quick start

If you want to start the server quickly in developer environment, you can just do the following:

./devstart

This will install your dependencies and boot the server.

Installing the server

If you just want to install dependencies, just do:

bundle install

Running the server

You can boot the server by using the standard rackup command:

# using defaults from config/puma.rb and rackup default port 9292
bundle exec rackup

# changing port
bundle exec rackup -p 8080

# changing threads count
MUMUKI_BIBLIOTHECA_API_THREADS=30 bundle exec rackup

Or you can also start it with puma command, which gives you more control:

# using defaults from config/puma.rb
bundle exec puma

# changing ports and threads count, using puma-specific options:
bundle exec puma -t 2:30 -p 8080

# changing ports and threads count, using environment variables:
MUMUKI_BIBLIOTHECA_API_PORT=8080 MUMUKI_BIBLIOTHECA_API_THREADS=30 bundle exec puma

Running tests

bundle exec rspec

Running tasks

# import guides from a github organization
bundle exec rake guides:import[<a github organization>]

# import languages from http://thesaurus.mumuki.io
bundle exec rake languages:import

Running Migrations

# migration_name is the name of the migration file in ./migrations/, without extension and the "migrate_" prefix
bundle exec rake db:migrate[<migration_name>]

See also

Bibliotheca Web Client

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