[katello-devel] Bootstrapping katello

[Eric Helms]

+1 to what Jason said.  If the Ruby/Rails community at large is used to a rake:boostrap task, and we can take our bash script and wrap a rake task around it and achieve both with easy maintainability lets do it.

-Eric

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Rist" <jrist at redhat.com>
To: "Ivan Nečas" <inecas at redhat.com>
Cc: katello-devel at redhat.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 12:44:32 PM
Subject: Re: [katello-devel] Bootstrapping katello

On 10/23/2012 12:15 AM, Ivan Nečas wrote:
> On 10/23/2012 01:08 AM, David Davis wrote:
>> Typically in Rails and Ruby projects, there's a boostrap rake task
>> that'll take care of setting up the project so you can develop it
>> and/or run it. I figured it might be worthwhile to set up something
>> similar for Katello after some recent problems people have been
>> experiencing. Not only will it appeal to Ruby/Rails developers but it
>> might also make it easier for us to setup development instances of
>> Katello. In addition, I think it might be easier to maintain than the
>> wiki page and we could also allow for custom logic in the boostrap
>> task in order to support different ways of setting up katello. To
>> illustrate this last point, you could have some tasks like:
>>
>> rake bootstrap
>> rake bootstrap:pulpv2
>> rake bootstrap:sam
>> (and so forth)
>>
>> Anyway, I've worked on a rough draft (http://fpaste.org/HwRc/). The
>> hope is that in order to setup a new project for development, one
>> would just have to run:
>>
>> git clone --recursive git at github.com:daviddavis/katello.git
>> cd katello/src
>> bundle install
>> rake bootstrap
>>
>> Let me know what you all think. Thanks!
> If you don't insist on the rake task, I thing this does what you had in
> mind https://github.com/Katello/katello/pull/894 . IMO it needs to be
> run before the bundle install (in fact it's good to run bundle install
> from the script, making sure the development dependencies are met. This
> script bases the installation on katello-configure which lets us to have
> the basic installation on one place and have it maintained (since
> katello-configure is tested on daily basis)
> 
> -- Ivan
>>
>> David
>>
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> 

If rake:bootstrap is a common thing, then why don't' we tie it into the
script you wrote? Similar to make configure of old.

-J

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