These instructions should help you get setup to run or develop on Medic Mobile. For latest changes and release announcements see our change log.
Medic Mobile combines messaging, data collection, and analytics for health workers and health systems in hard-to-reach areas with or without internet connectivity.
The medic-webapp repository is the core application in the Medic Mobile stack. When health workers submit data — using text messages (SMS), our mobile applications, or our SIM applications — the web app confirms data submission, generates unique IDs, and schedules automated reminder messages based on user-defined configurations. All information submitted by mobile users can be viewed, filtered, verified, and exported using the reports tab in the web application.
The web app is fully responsive with a mobile-first design, and supports localization using any written language. It can be installed locally, as part of a virtual machine (see medic-os), or in the cloud.
For more information about Medic Mobile's tools, visit http://medicmobile.org/tools.
You will need to install the following:
Node.js v0.12.x
CouchDB v1.6.1
couchdb-lucene v1.0.2 or greater
Setup admin access:
curl -X PUT http://localhost:5984/_config/admins/admin -d '"pass"'
Reconfigure CouchDB to require authentication:
curl -X PUT http://admin:pass@localhost:5984/_config/couch_httpd_auth/require_valid_user \
-d '"true"' -H "Content-Type: application/json"
The above command automatically modifies local.ini to contain:
[couch_httpd_auth]
require_valid_user = true
Create an admin user:
curl -X POST http://admin:pass@localhost:5984/_users \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"_id": "org.couchdb.user:admin", "name": "admin", "password":"pass", "type":"user", "roles":[]}'
Kanso is required to build and deploy.
npm install kanso -g
Grunt is required to build.
npm install grunt-cli -g
Add the following to CouchDB's httpd_global_handlers configuration section:
_fti = {couch_httpd_proxy, handle_proxy_req, <<"http://127.0.0.1:5985">>}
Update $lucene_home/conf/couchdb-lucene.ini so the URL has credentials, e.g.:
url=http://admin:pass@localhost:5984/
Start lucene using the $lucene_home/bin/run script.
You should now see an identical welcome message at two different URLs:
curl http://localhost:5985
{"couchdb-lucene":"Welcome","version":"1.0.2"}
curl http://localhost:5984/_fti
{"couchdb-lucene":"Welcome","version":"1.0.2"}
git clone --recursive https://github.com/medic/medic-webapp
cd medic-webapp
npm install
Create a .kansorc file in the app directory with your CouchDB credentials, e.g.:
exports.env = {
default: {
db: "http://admin:pass@localhost:5984/medic",
overrides: {loglevel:"debug"}
}
};
grunt dev will build and deploy the webapp, then watch for changes and redeploy when necessary.
cd sentinel
npm install
export COUCH_URL=http://admin:pass@localhost:5984/medic
node ./server.js
See Medic Sentinel for more information.
cd api
npm install
export COUCH_URL=http://admin:pass@localhost:5984/medic
node ./server.js
See Medic API for more information.
Garden Dashboard is optionally used to manage the couchapp.
To install Dashboard, first change the CouchDB's secure_rewrites configuration
parameter to false:
curl -X PUT http://admin:pass@localhost:5984/_config/httpd/secure_rewrites \
-d '"false"' -H "Content-Type: application/json"
Finally, download, build, and push the dashboard application to CouchDB:
git clone https://github.com/garden20/dashboard
cd dashboard
kanso install
kanso push http://admin:pass@localhost:5984/dashboard
Navigate your browser to:
http://localhost:5988/medic/_design/medic/_rewrite/
To run precommit tests:
- Start CouchDB
- Start API:
TEST_ENV=1 COUCH_URL=http://admin:pass@localhost:5984/medic node api/server.js - Update Webdriver:
node_modules/grunt-protractor-runner/node_modules/protractor/bin/webdriver-manager update - Start Webdriver:
node_modules/grunt-protractor-runner/node_modules/protractor/bin/webdriver-manager start - Run tests:
grunt test
Some kanso tests are run in-browser; you can run them manually if you browse to /medic/_design/medic/_rewrite/test.
Loading your form definitions in the settings interface is supported, but you can also do that from command line:
node scripts/load_forms.js
To batch-load messages from a CSV file, run:
node scripts/load_messages.js
Use curl to submit a single message:
curl -i -u gateway:123qwe \
--data-urlencode 'message=Test One two' \
--data-urlencode 'from=+13125551212' \
--data-urlencode 'sent_timestamp=1403965605868' \
-X POST \
http://localhost:5988/api/v1/records
When deploying to the market, include the sentinel package in the couchapp so gardener can manage the process. This is already automated in the CI scripts (and runs on Travis CI), but here is the manual process:
First clone the repo recursively so you get both submodules api and
sentinel, then change directories:
git clone --depth=50 --recursive https://github.com/medic/medic-webapp
cd medic-webapp
Then edit kanso.json, and add "kanso-gardener":null to the end of the list
of dependencies. You can use a text editor, or
jsontool has an edit mode that works:
cat kanso.json | json -e \
'this.dependencies["kanso-gardener"] = null; this.dependencies_included = true;' \
> new.json && \
mv new.json kanso.json
Finally, push to the Medic Alpha Market:
kanso push https://staging.dev.medicmobile.org/markets-alpha/uploadJoin our Google Group or file an issue on Github.
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