Exercism Website

Development Setup

This is a Ruby on Rails (5.2) application backed by MySQL.

Database

You need MySQL installed. Something like this will then get a working database setup:

mysql -e "CREATE USER 'exercism_reboot'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'exercism_reboot'" -u root -p
mysql -e "create database exercism_reboot_development" -u root -p
mysql -e "create database exercism_reboot_test" -u root -p
mysql -e "ALTER DATABASE exercism_reboot_development CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;" -u root -p
mysql -e "ALTER DATABASE exercism_reboot_test CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;" -u root -p
mysql -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON exercism_reboot_development.* TO 'exercism_reboot'@'localhost'" -u root -p
mysql -e "GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON exercism_reboot_test.* TO 'exercism_reboot'@'localhost'" -u root -p

Running the application

For the first time

Set a server identity:

$ echo "host" > server_identity

You need Ruby and the bundler gem installed (gem install bundler). Then the following should get you a working rails server

bundle install
bundle exec rake bin/setup
bundle exec rails r "Git::UpdatesRepos.update"
bundle exec rails s

Something like this will get a working webserver on http://http://lvh.me:3000 Note: Teams will be avaliable on http://teams.lvh.me:3000

On future runs

You can just run:

bundle exec rails s

Notes

We recommend using lvh.me which is a DNS redirect to localhost, but which we honour cookies on.

Deleting an account

To delete a user, run user.destroy.

The user record is deleted, as well as associated objects except the ff:

Discussion posts where they are a mentor.
Maintainer records where their user record is associated.

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