Rapidsms.org Website

Below you will find basic setup and deployment instructions for the Rapidsms.org website project. To begin you should have the following applications installed on your local development system:

• Python >= 2.6 (2.7 recommended)
• pip >= 1.1
• virtualenv >= 1.7
• virtualenvwrapper >= 3.0
• Postgres >= 8.4 (9.1 recommended)
• git >= 1.7

The deployment uses SSH with agent forwarding so you'll need to enable agent forwarding if it is not already by adding ForwardAgent yes to your SSH config.

Getting Started

If you are cloning the repo, you will also need to initialize submodules from the root project directory:

git clone git://github.com/rapidsms/rapidsms.org.git website/
cd website/
git submodule init
git submodule update

Whenever you pull down from the repository, make sure to run git submodule update.

To setup your local environment you should create a virtualenv and install the necessary requirements:

mkvirtualenv --distribute website
$VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/pip install -r $PWD/requirements/dev.txt

Then create a local settings file and set your DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE to use it:

cp website/settings/local.example.py website/settings/local.py
echo "export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=website.settings.local" >> $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/postactivate
echo "unset DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE" >> $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/postdeactivate

You will also need to set a >=50 length secret key, as the settings files pulls the SECRET_KEY from the local environment:

echo "export SECRET_KEY=somethinglongerthan50chars" >> $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/postactivate
echo "unset SECRET_KEY" >> $VIRTUAL_ENV/bin/postdeactivate

Exit the virtualenv and reactivate it to activate the settings just changed:

deactivate
workon website

Create the Postgres database and run the initial syncdb/migrate:

createdb -E UTF-8 rapidsms_website
python manage.py syncdb
python manage.py migrate

Configure your application on Github. Visit the "Applications" section of your Github account settings, and create a new application.

• Name: You can use any name for the application.
• URL: The URL of your site. For local testing, use http://localhost:8000.
• Callback URL: Add the absolute path to "/users/login/github/callback/" as the callback URL.

Add the Github-generated Client ID (GITHUB_KEY) and Client Secret (GITHUB_SECRET) to your local.py file, and run:

python manage.py setup_github

You should now be able to run the development server:

python manage.py runserver

Solr Install & Configuration

Rapidsms.org utilizes Solr for the search backend. In order to utilize search locally, you will need to install and configure Solr:

./scripts/solr-install.sh

This will install Solr in the root of the repository. To run Solr:

./scripts/solr-run.sh

If you make changes to the Haystack indices, you will need to rebuild the Solr schema. Due to an existing Haystack issue, there is a helper script to do this as well:

./scripts/solr-rebuild-schema.sh

After running the script, you will need to restart Solr.

Lastly, you will need to build the initial search index:

python manage.py rebuild_index

Deployment

You can deploy changes to a particular environment with the deploy command. This takes an optional branch name to deploy. If the branch is not given, it will use the default branch defined for this environment in env.branch:

fab staging deploy
fab staging deploy:new-feature

New requirements or South migrations are detected by parsing the VCS changes and will be installed/run automatically.

Running the tests

You can run the tests via:

python manage.py test packages projects users

To check the test coverage you should have coverage installed and run:

# Install coverage
pip install coverage
# Run tests with coverage
coverage run --source=website manage.py test packages projects users aggregator
# Show the coverage report with missing lines
coverage report -m --omit="*/tests/*,*/migrations/*,*/settings/*,"