This is a fork for websubmit-rs, a web application for collecting student homework submissions, written using Rocket for a MySQL backend.
To run it, you need to run a MySQL server deployment.
Then you can run the web application, which will automatically connect
to MySQL database myclass:
websubmit-rs$ cargo run --release -- -i myclass
To create and initialize the database, set the prime variable in the configuration
file (see below).
The web interface will be served on localhost:8000. Note that the
templates included in this repository are very basic; in practice, you
will want to customize the files in templates.
By default, the application will read configuration file sample-config.toml,
but a real deployment will specify a custom config (-c myconfig.toml).
Configuration files are TOML files with the following format:
# short class ID (human readable)
class = "CSCI 2390"
# list of staff email addresses (these users' API keys get admin access)
staff = ["malte@cs.brown.edu"]
# custom template directory
template_dir = "/path/to/templates"
# custom resource directory (e.g., for images, CSS, JS)
resource_dir = "/path/to/resources"
# a secret that will be hashed into user's API keys to make them unforgeable
secret = "SECRET"
# whether to send emails (set to false for development)
send_emails = false
# whether to reset the db (set to false for production)
prime = true
If you omit --release, the web app will produce additional
debugging output.