NDS Developing

The easiest way is:

    pip install virtualenv

Though you may need to prepend sudo.

For additional help, see virtualenv.

Enter the NDS src directory

    cd ~/main/apps/dicts/nds/src/

Create a virtualenv

    virtualenv env

Now whenever you intend to work in the project, you can run the following:

    source env/bin/activate

And this will switch the paths to use the proper Python installation, with all of the projects packages installed.

You should see some feedback in the command line or path that the virtual environment is active.

NB: you only need to do this the first time you install the virtualenv, or whenever requirements.txt changes.

Switch to the neahtta directory:

    cd ~/main/apps/dicts/nds/src/neahtta/

And with the virtual environment active, run the following:

    pip install -r requirements.txt

Note, you do *not* need to run this as a super user, if you do, there are some other problems.

NDS requires some Node modules to compress CSS and JS. First follow the install steps on node's website for the current LTS edition: http://nodejs.org/

This should install both Node.js and the related package manager, npm. Once done confirm npm is installed:

    $ npm

If it is there, switch to the neahtta directory, and install:

    $ cd ~/main/apps/dicts/nds/src/neahtta/
    $ npm install

This will read dependencies from package.json to the directory node_modules/ and run a post-install script for these.

With the environment prepared, you may start work on NDS. However, if you need to set up the environment again, all you need to do is source the virtualenv file:

    source env/bin/activate

... and then start a development server

    fab PROJNAME runserver

NB: for some changes to config files you will need to stop and restart the development server.

Missing SSH config file:

You might see an error like:

    (env) $ fab saanih runserver
    [localhost] Executing task 'saanih'

    Warning: Unable to load SSH config file '/Users/username/.ssh/config'

If this is the case, check your home directory ~/.ssh/config, and confirm that you have access to it: sometimes permissions get weird.

Missing node dependencies

    * Missing dependency in $PATH: uglifyjs
      Install the executable, check that it is available in $PATH,
        and check that it's executable.

The error means what it says, however there are some things to check:

1. Look at the output of which uglifyjs, if there is nothing:
   1. Doublecheck that npm install really worked, and there are executables to be found in .../neahtta/node_modules/.bin/, and that there were no errors from that command
   2. Check your $PATH variable for node_modules/.bin/