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Setup

Codespaces

The quickest way to get up and running with the ECF2 application is to use a Codespace. Just click 'Code', 'Create codespace on main' and wait for a minute while everything's installed for you. Once it's done you should be able to type bin/dev in your terminal window and the app will run.

Running it on your computer

Prerequisites

You'll need to set up some environment variables too. You can do that securely with direnv.

Preparing your database user

When running the app locally for development purposes we'll often want to drop and recreate the database, so we need to use a superuser.

This assumes your username is joey. You can check yours by running whoami

  1. Ensure PostgreSQL is installed and running

  2. Change to the postgres user with sudo su -l postgres

  3. As the postgres user:

    1. Create a database user with the same name as your main main login, i.e., createuser --superuser joey
    2. Edit the pg_hba.conf file (found in the data directory in the postgres user's home) and add this line to the table at the bottom - this trusts all local connections. It's permissive but fine for development purposes. 
      local   all             all                                     trust
host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            trust
    3. log out (type exit)

  4. Restart PostgreSQL.

    On Linux this will be something like sudo systemctl restart postgresql.service

    On Mac, if you installed with Homebrew, run brew services restart postgres. If you installed Postgres.app, right click on the icon in the control centre and click 'Restart server'

  5. Now we can test our user account is working properly. By default, running the postgres command with no arguments will connect with your username to a database named after your username (i.e. it will connect with the user joey to a database called joey).

    We should be able to create a database with createdb joey

    Then, running psql should connect and give us a prompt like this:

    $ psql

psql (16.3)
Type "help" for help.

joey=#

    If that worked, we're done. You can quit the database prompt with \q or by pressing ctrl+d

Installing dependencies

Once you have Ruby and NodeJS installed we're ready to install the application's dependencies.

We can do this in one step with bin/setup:

$ bin/setup

# == Installing dependencies ==
# The Gemfile's dependencies are satisfied
#
# up to date, audited 22 packages in 932ms
#
# found 0 vulnerabilities
#
# == Preparing database ==
# Created database 'ecf2_development'
# Created database 'ecf2_test'
#
# == Removing old logs and tempfiles ==
#
# == Restarting application server ==

Or you can do each step manually with:

$ bundle install
$ npm install
$ bundle exec rails db:setup

Running the app

Once all the dependencies are installed we can run the application.

$ bin/dev

Navigate to https://localhost:3000 in your browser and if you can see a website, everything's working! 🥳

Go and put the kettle on.