If you have a MacBook you undoubtedly have never used LDAP on it, have a version of the Ruby programming language installed that you also haven't used much, and the Apache httpd web server is disabled. Why not put them to use?
It is easy, run the following two commands:
git clone git@github.com:apache/whimsy.git whimsy/config/setupmymac
This will prompt you for your password a few times, and if you are running macOS Catalina will even require you to reboot your machine at one point.
Once complete, you will have a virtual host defined as whimsy.local that you can access in your web browser. The whole process should take about five minutes, possibly less if you already have things like brew installed.
Don't want to instal things on your machine? If you have Docker installed, you can use that instead, simply pass --docker to the setupmymac command above and you will have a Docker image created. This will take longer, require more disk space, runs slower, and is less convenient, but is more secure, more closely matches how the production whimsy server is configured, and can easily be removed when done. Once complete, you start the Docker server with the following commands:
cd /srv/whimsy rake docker:up
When running on Docker, you will access the whimsy server using http://localhost:1999. You can edit your source code on your Mac machine using your favorite IDE. If you need to “shell” into the Docker container (perhaps to view a log file?), you can do so:
cd /srv/whimsy rake docker:exec
The Docker configuration is new and hasn't been heavily tested, so there likely will be some problems. Join us on dev@whimsical.apache.org, or even better, provide a pull request!
You can even switch back and forth (using the same checked out svn files and whimsy source code) by rerunning setupmymac again with a different option. Once you have both configurations set up running this command again will change permissions on a few files, but generally will leave everything else is the same. If you want to update more (say, to get a new version of passenger), there are options to do that, enter whimsy/config/setupmymac --help for details. Pass --update-all to update everything.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| setupmymac | Ensure that everything is installed, checked out, cloned |
| setupmymac --svn | Ensure that everything is installed, update svn |
| setupmymac --update-all | Ensure that everything is up to date |
| setupmymac --update-all --no-svn | Ensure that everything is up to date, except for svn |
| setupmymac --all | Ensure that everything is up to date and launched |
| setupmymac --no-ws | Stop board agenda websocket daemon |
| setupmymac --docker | Configure for docker usage |
| setupmymac --docker --prune | Clean start container |
| setupmymac --clean | Reset /srv/whimsy - danger may cause lost changes |
| setupmymac --user | Set up webserver to run under your user id |
| setupmymac --dry-run | show what commands would have been issued |
/srv/whimsy may be needed if you change your version of Ruby or Gems.setupmymac again.If you want to know what is going on under the covers with the setupmymac scripts, visit either of the detailed step-by-step macOS or Docker instructions.