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 running with isolation.
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 the 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 the latest STABLE channel
run:
nix-channel --add https://nixos.org/channels/nixos-16.03 nixpkgs
Followed by:
nix-channel --update
Install required binaries
We need some handy tools first.
run:
nix-env -i nix-prefetch-hg nix-env -i nix-prefetch-git
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 via support@rhodecode.com
Install some required libraries
There are some required drivers that we need to install to test RhodeCode under different types of databases. For example in Ubuntu we need to install the following.
required libraries:
sudo apt-get install libapr1-dev libaprutil1-dev sudo apt-get install libsvn-dev sudo apt-get install mysql-server libmysqlclient-dev sudo apt-get install postgresql postgresql-contrib libpq-dev sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
Enter the Development Shell
The final step is to start the development shell. To do this, run the following command from inside the cloned repository:
cd ~/rhodecode-enterprise-ce nix-shell
Note
On the first run, this will take a while to download and optionally compile a few things. The following runs will be faster. The development shell works fine on both MacOS and Linux platforms.
Creating a Development Configuration
To create a development environment for RhodeCode Enterprise, use the following steps:
- Create a copy of ~/rhodecode-enterprise-ce/configs/development.ini
- Adjust the configuration settings to your needs
Note
It is recommended to use the name 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
Compile CSS and JavaScript
To use the application's frontend and prepare it for production deployment, you will need to compile the CSS and JavaScript with Grunt. This is easily done from within the nix-shell using the following command:
grunt
When developing new features you will need to recompile following any changes made to the CSS or JavaScript files when developing the code:
grunt watch
This prepares the development (with comments/whitespace) versions of files.
Start the Development Server
From the rhodecode-vcsserver directory, start the development server in another nix-shell, using the following command:
pserve configs/development.ini http_port=9900
In the adjacent nix-shell which you created for your development server, you may now start CE with the following command:
rcserver dev.ini
Note
To automatically refresh - and recompile the frontend assets - when changes are made in the source code, you can use the option --reload.
Run the Environment Tests
Please make sure that the tests are passing to verify that your environment is set up correctly. RhodeCode uses py.test to run tests. While your instance is running, start a new nix-shell and simply run make test to run the basic test suite.
Need Help?
Join us on Slack via https://rhodecode.com/join or post questions in our Community Portal at https://community.rhodecode.com