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Development setup

RhodeCode Enterprise runs inside a Nix managed environment. This ensures build environment dependencies are correctly declared and installed during setup. It also enables atomic upgrades, rollbacks, and multiple instances of RhodeCode Enterprise for efficient cluster management.

To set up RhodeCode Enterprise inside the Nix environment use the following steps:

Setup Nix Package Manager

To install the Nix Package Manager please run:

$ curl https://nixos.org/nix/install | sh

or go to https://nixos.org/nix/ and follow their installation instructions. Once this is correctly set up on your system you should be able to use the following commands:

  • nix-env
  • nix-shell

Tip

Update your channels frequently by running nix-channel --upgrade.

Switch nix to latest STABLE channel

run:

nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-16.03 nixpkgs

Followed by:

nix-channel --update

Clone the required repositories

After Nix is set up, clone the RhodeCode Enterprise Community Edition, and RhodeCode VCSServer repositories into the same directory. To do this, use the following example:

mkdir rhodecode-develop && cd rhodecode-develop
hg clone https://code.rhodecode.com/rhodecode-enterprise-ce
hg clone https://code.rhodecode.com/rhodecode-vcsserver

Note

If you cannot clone the repository, please request read permissions.

Enter the Development Shell

The final step is to start into the development shell. To do this run the following command from inside the cloned repository:

cd ~/rhodecode-enterprise-ce
nix-shell --arg dev true

Note

On the first run, this will take a while to download and optionally compile a few things. The next runs of it will be faster.

Creating a Development Configuration

To create a development environment for RhodeCode Enterprise, use the following steps:

  1. Create a copy of ~/rhodecode-enterprise-ce/configs/development.ini

  2. Adjust the configuration settings to your needs

    Note

    It is recommended to call it dev.ini.

Setup the Development Database

To create a development database use the following example. This is a one time operation:

paster setup-rhodecode dev.ini \
    --user=admin --password=secret \
    --email=admin@example.com \
    --repos=~/my_dev_repos

Start the Development Server

When starting the development server, you should start the vcsserver as a separate process. To do this use one of the following examples:

  1. Set the start.vcs_server flag in the dev.ini file to true. For example:

    ### VCS CONFIG ###
##################
vcs.start_server = true
vcs.server = localhost:9900
vcs.server.log_level = debug

    Then start the server using the following command: rcserver dev.ini

  2. Start the development server using the following example:

    rcserver --with-vcsserver dev.ini

  3. Start the development server in a different terminal using the following example:

    vcsserver

Run the Environment Tests

Please make sure that the test are passing to verify that your environment is set up correctly. More details about the tests are described in: :file:`/docs/dev/testing`.