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Setting up a dev environment | Instructions on how to start developing for Mastodon. |
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Setup
Run following commands in the project directory bundle install
, yarn install
.
In the development environment, Mastodon will use PostgreSQL as the currently signed-in Linux user using the ident
method, which usually works out of the box. The one command you need to run is rails db:setup
which will create the databases mastodon_development
and mastodon_test
, load the schema into them, and then create seed data defined in db/seed.rb
in mastodon_development
. The only seed data is an admin account with the credentials admin@localhost:3000
/ mastodonadmin
.
Please keep in mind, by default Mastodon will run on port 3000. If you configure a different port for it, the generated admin account will use that number.
Running
There are multiple processes that need to be run for the full set of Mastodon’s functionality, although they can be selectively omitted. To run all of them with just one command, you can install Foreman with gem install foreman --no-document
and then use:
foreman start
In the Mastodon directory. This will start processes defined in Procfile.dev
, which will give you: A Rails server, a Webpack server, a streaming API server, and Sidekiq. Of course, you can run any of those things stand-alone depending on your needs.
Testing
Command | Description |
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rspec |
Run the Ruby test suite |
yarn run test |
Run the JavaScript test suite |
rubocop |
Check the Ruby code for conformance with our code style |