Agora

There is a companion project where the feature backlog lives. Go to the issues in https://github.com/softwerkskammer/Agora-Backlog/issues

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Weekly video hangout

Every Friday at 21:00 Berlin Time via Google Hangout. Co-ordination via the mailinglist at http://www.softwerkskammer.org/groups/neueplattform

What this is about

This is the project to build the new groupware platform for the German Software Craftsmanship Communities. It can be seen in action on http://softwerkskammer.org The site is currently German only.

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Current Build Status

System requirements for installation

It is a node.js project. Therefore you need node.js installed. You need version 0.8 (at least 0.8.19) and npm 1.2. Important: node.js version 0.10 does not work!

Get it from http://nodejs.org

Some modules are compiled during the installation. Therefore some software should be installed.

• Python 2.7 in system path
• Git in system path
• OS depending C++ compiler with headers and libraries
  • For Windows: Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 4 available here
  • For Mac OS X: Install XCode from the App Store. In XCode's preferences (section "Downloads"), install the command line tools. When you have installed the stand alone version of the command line tools, you need to execute sudo xcode-select -switch /usr/bin before you are able to run npm install.
• MongoDB (Version 2.4) http://www.mongodb.org/downloads

Preparations for use

• Check out this project into some folder (let's call it REPO from now on)

• In REPO, run npm install

  • Under Windows this command must run from a shell set up for running Windows Microsoft Windows SDK compilers

        cmd.exe /E:ON /V:ON /T:0E /K "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\SetEnv.cmd" /Release /X86
    

  • Alternatively run npm install in the Windows SDK Command Promt

  • If python 3 is the default version, the command line for npm install must be adopted with the right python version (2.7)

        npm install --python /usr/bin/python2
    

• Install mongodb for you operating system from http://www.mongodb.org/downloads

• Start mongodb. If you only plan to use it for development, the default settings are ok. The app as well as the tests use these defaults if nothing different is configured.

• (Optional) Instructions for authenticated use are here

The built-in wiki

To set up the built in wiki follow these instructions

Running the server

• If your installation is fresh, perform the db initializing script: In REPO, invoke node initialDBSetup
• In REPO, invoke npm start
• You can now access the application by entering http://localhost:17124 in your browser
  • The port 17124 is the default and can be changed via the command line option --port or via the environment option 'port' to any wanted value
• If your installation is fresh, you should create an account for yourself. After that, perform the initializing script again to give yourself admin priviliges.
  • The default setup assumes you are running on localhost for authentication. If you are using an alternate hostname, you have to edit the configuration file config/example-server-config.json. Follow the instructions in there.

Running the tests

To run the tests, you need to install grunt-cli. We propose to install grunt-cli globally via the -g option of npm. To find out more about this option, see https://npmjs.org/doc/global.html.:

• (Optional) To define the installation location of global npm packages on Unix-like Systems create a file called .npmrc with the following contents in your Home directory:

    prefix = GLOBALPATH
    umask = 077
  

• Anywhere, invoke npm install -g grunt-cli or sudo npm install -g grunt-cli if you don't have sufficient user privileges. You can check the installation with which grunt. If a location is returned everything is fine.

• (Optional) If the directory GLOBALPATH/bin is not in your path (you can check with echo $PATH), you need to add it to the path: In your Home directory, create or edit the file .profile and add the following line:

    export PATH=GLOBALPATH/bin/:$PATH
  

Now, you can run the tests in REPO with npm test

For running specific tests only, you can use mocha in a command like mocha -R spec test/announcements/ To install mocha, invoke npm install -g mocha or sudo npm install -g mocha

To run the style check (jshint) and the tests on every file change, use grunt watch

Debugging the tests from IDE Webstorm

Follow these instructions

Editing the stylesheets

Only edit the scss-files inside the "partials" subfolder. Running npm test or grunt default will compile the scss files to screen.css.