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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 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

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

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:

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

  2. 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

Start the Development Server

First, 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

From the rhodecode-vcsserver directory, start the development server in another nix-shell, using the following command:

pserve configs/development_pyramid.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

You may also wish to use the option --reload with this command so that any changes which you make in the code trigger an automatic refresh.

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