Getting foodsoft running for development
========================================

Gratulations, if you read this file locally, you have successfully cloned the
foodsoft project from the git repository. Now you are only a few steps away
from trying it out and then jumping into development.

**System requirements**:
[RVM](https://rvm.io/rvm/install),
[Ruby 1.9.3](https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/) and
[Bundler](http://bundler.io/).

Getting started
---------------

0. Clone the repository from GitHub:
    ```
    git clone https://github.com/foodcoops/foodsoft.git
    ```

1. Install RVM and Ruby 1.9.3 (if you have not done so before):
   ```
   \curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash
   source ~/.rvm/scripts/rvm
   rvm install 1.9.3
   ```

2. Install Ruby dependencies:
   ```
   bundle install
   ```

3. Setup your development environment:
   ```
   rake foodsoft:setup_development
   ```
   This will interactively prompt with several questions relating to your
   required environment.

4. Start rails by running:
   ```
   bundle exec rails s
   ```

5. Open your favorite browser and open the web application at:
   ```
   http://localhost:3000/
   ```
   You might want to watch a
   [kitten video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Iq5yCoHp4o)
   while it's loading.

6. Login using the default credentials: `admin/secret`

7. Change the admin password, just in case.

8. Have phun!



Manual configuration
--------------------

The rake task `foodsoft:setup_development` helps you to setup foodsoft.
If you want to have more control, you can do these steps manually as
explained here.


1. **Configure datebase**

   Create the database configuration from the default:
   ```sh
   cp config/database.yml.SQLite_SAMPLE config/database.yml
   ```
   If you are fine with using a file-based sqlite database you are all set.
   The sqlite files (development/test/production) will reside in the "db"
   directory. Otherwise you would want to copy one of the other
   "database.yml.*_SAMPLE" files and edit database.yml to suit your needs.


2. **Configure development environment**

   Again, you need to create your own copy of the default configuration:
   ```
   cp config/environments/development.rb.SAMPLE config/environments/development.rb
   ```

   Edit development.rb to specify your settings (at least the ActionMailer SMTP
   settings). If you just leave the file as is, emails will not work but
   everything else should be okay.


3. **Foodsoft settings**

   You need to create your own copy of the foodsoft configuration settings:
   ```
   cp config/app_config.yml.SAMPLE config/app_config.yml
   ```
   Edit app_config.yml to suit your needs or just keep the defaults for now.


4. **Secret token**

   The user session are stored in cookies. Do avoid misusing the cookies and
   its sensitive information, rails will encrypt it with a token. So copy the
   config file
   ```
   cp config/initializers/secret_token.rb.SAMPLE config/initializers/secret_token.rb
   ```
   and modify the token!! You can run `bundle exec rake secret`


5. **Create database (schema) and load defaults**
   ```
   rake db:setup
   ```
   With this, you also get a ready to go user with username 'admin' and
   password 'secret'.


6. (optional) Get **background jobs** done
 
   We use for time intensive tasks a background job queue, at the moment resque
   with redis as key/value store.  Install redis (in ubuntu the package
   redis-server works out of the box) and start the resque worker with:
   ```
   rake resque:work QUEUE=foodsoft_notifier
   ```
   To have look on the current queue, failed jobs etc start the resque server with
   ```
   resque-web
   ```


7. (optional) **View mails in browser** instead in your logs

   We use mailcatcher in development mode to view all delivered mails in a
   browser interface.  Just install mailcatcher with gem install mailcatcher
   and start the service with
   ```
   mailcatcher
   ```
   From now on you have a smtp server listening on 1025. To see the emails go to
   ```
   http://localhost:1080
   ```