Buffet

How to install

We aim to make this as short as possible.

  1. Copy the sample settings file to settings.yml and change it.

  2. Create a file called db_setup, and put it in [your repo]/bin. This file should nuke and recreate the testing databases. Currently, it also sshes into the other hosts and does the same thing. That behaviour is a little confusing. It should probably change. This step is currently optional; if a db_setup script doesn't exist, nothing will happen.

How to use

The CLI is a little more powerful than the web interface. Currently working on making them equal.

bundle exec lib/cli.rb --help to see options. bundle exec lib/cli.rb is basic functionality. Also, you may be interested in bundle exec lib/cli.rb --watch.

Web interface:

bundle exec rackup. Then navigate to localhost:9292/test.

Or, after you've started the server, try curl 'localhost:9292/start-buffet-server/BRANCH', replacing BRANCH with the correct branch.

FAQ

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/fileutils.rb:243:inmkdir': Permission denied - /home/(some user) (Errno::EACCES)`

This means that somehow bundle install was called, but is using args found on the master machine, not the host. (Yes, the error is very obscure..)

There are a few ways to solve this problem: 1. You can manually solve this by sshing in and calling bundle install. 2. You can examine the source / bug me to figure out why things are out of order, then fix them.

unknown database 'buffet_causes'

You should precede all bundle database commands with RAILS_ENV=test.

TODO

  1. Get rid of all TODOs.

  2. Feature requests:

  3. What user did this run on?

  4. ???

  5. Non-profit

Looking Forward

  1. Use a git wrapper, not inline shell commands.