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Use
bin/consoleto start the console. Use
bin/console staging|productionto start the console in staging or production.
Users are deactivated if they leave thoughtbot. Sometimes someone with the same first name joins thoughtbot later and inherits the deactivated email so we need to reactivate the email. There are two ways to reactivate a user:
From the browser:
/user_activations
From the console:
bin/console production
Constable.User.reactivate("[email protected]")
To set up your development environment, there are a few steps you'll need to follow.
You need to have Erlang, Elixir, Node and ChromeDriver installed. This section describes the easiest way to do that.
If you're on OS X and using Homebrew, run
brew install nodeto get nodejs.
Once node is installed, run
npm -g install chromedriver.
Finally, install the asdf package manager, which will read the
.tool-versionsfile from the repo to install the correct versions of Erlang and Elixir. Downloading and installing Erlang might take a while, so be patient on first run. You should be able to run
asdf installfrom the project directly to install the required packages.
Run:
# Will grab all Elixir and NPM dependencies and then setup the database $ bin/setup
You'll want to have certain environment variables and user data set up so you can log into the app locally with your thoughtbot email.
In
.env, there are three values that say "get-from-staging" - CLIENTID, CLIENTSECRET, and HUBAPITOKEN. Replace these values with the ones from staging. Find them by running
heroku config -r staging.
You'll also want to grab the STAGINGDBENVVAR from staging. Run: `heroku pg:pull STAGINGDBENVVAR constableapidevelopment -r staging`, where the value of STAGINGDBENV_VAR is what you got from the heroku config. This will copy the data over so you have example data to work with, including your already existing user account.
Once all the dependencies have been installed, you can start the Phoenix server with:
$ mix phx.server
You can edit the email contents from
web/templates/email.
You can preview templates by going to
localhost:4000/emails/#{template_name}. You can find a list of templates in the
EmailPreviewController.
You can view sent emails in development by going to
localhost:4000/sent_emails
Run
mix test
Run
mix dialyzerto run the analysis. The lookup table will be created by this process. If your dependencies or your elixir version change, delete
.dialyzer.pltand run
mix dialyzer.pltto rebuild it.
There are still a lot of warnings that are not fixable, but occasionally some real errors are found by dialyzer
bin/setupyet, run it to add the correct git remotes.
bin/deploy (staging|production)
Constable is setup with support for Heroku Review Apps.
Google enforces a white list of OAuth redirect URLs, so for review apps we redirect the OAuth flow through the Constable oauth redirector which then redirects back to the correct review app. This is configured with the
OAUTH_REDIRECT_OVERRIDEenvironment variable.
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