The Dictionary of Falklands Biographies

Versions

• Ruby 2.6.6
• Rails 6.1.3.1

Dev/local environment

• Install docker
• Clone the project
• Checkout staging branch
• Install Ruby Gems
  • docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose.local.yml run --rm app bin/bundle install
• Create databases
  • docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose.local.yml run --rm app bin/rails -e test db:create
  • docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose.local.yml run --rm app bin/rails -e development db:create
• Run migrations
  • docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose.local.yml run --rm app bin/rails -e test db:migrate
  • docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose.local.yml run --rm app bin/rails -e development db:migrate

Environment Variables

• create a .env file in the docker folder
  • DFB_DB_PASS => Password for the PostgreSQL user (set to anything, this variable creates and uses)
  • BACKUP_EMAIL => Email for backup script success
  • SMTP_USER => SMTP username
  • SMTP_PASS => SMTP password
  • DFB_COMMENTS_EMAIL_DEV => emails that comments and reports go to

Run tests

• docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose.local.yml run --rm app rails test

Run development server

• Populate development database with recent backup
• Copy image foldes from the same backup into public/system/
• Start the server
  • docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose.local.yml run --rm --service-ports app bin/rails server -b 0.0.0.0
• Navigate to http://localhost:3000

Production Environment

Configure Github Actions

Set the following secrets in Github Actions

• DEPLOY_CONT_PROD - Caontainer name
• DEPLOY_CONT_STAGING - Container name
• DEPLOY_HOME - Home fold of the deployment host user
• DEPLOY_HOST - Address of host deployment machine
• DEPLOY_KEY - SSH key
• DEPLOY_PORT - SSH Port
• DEPLOY_USER - User on the host machine
• DEPLOY_PATH_PROD - Path to the volume
• DEPLOY_PATH_STAGING - Path to the volume

Build production docker image locally

• docker build -f docker/Dockerfile.prod -t rails:1.4 ./docker
• docker save rails:1.4 -o docker/rails_1.4.tar
• Upload to portainer through UI for use

Create conatainers

• A Postgres instance will be required
• Create containers using the latest base image(currently rails:1.5)
• Set the following environment variables for container:
  • DFB_DB_PASS
  • DFB_DB_USER
  • DFB_DB_NAME
  • DFB_DB_HOST
  • DFB_DB_PORT
  • DFB_SECRET_KEY_BASE -> checkout rails docs for instructions how to generate
  • PASSENGER_APP_ENV -> production or staging
  • RAILS_ENV -> production or staging
    • Probably don't need both of these
  • SMTP_USER
  • SMTP_PASS
  • DFB_COMMENTS_EMAIL_PRODUCTION -> Can be multiple

Admin Console Tasks

Open a Rails console

Local

docker-compose -f docker/docker-compose.local.yml exec app /bin/bash
bin/rails console

Production

sudo docker exec -it <CONTAINER_NAME> /bin/bash
bin/rails console

Creating a new user

• User.create!(email: "guy@gmail.com", password: "111111", password_confirmation: "111111")

Adding a biography to an author

• BiographyAuthor.create!( biography_id: 496, author_id: 148, author_position: 1 )

Updating Rails

• Update the version in Gemfile
• in the local docker container run bundle update rails
• commit and push the changes to Gemfile and Gemfile.lock