Installation Issues

Blocks

• "lazy_high_charts requires RubyGems version ~> 1.3" but I have 2.2. (After switching to Ruby 1.9.3. Worked fine when I installed on 1.9.2). (Fixed by adjusting rubygems version down to 1.8.x).
• When running supplejack api generate: "SupplejackApi::User does not respond to 'devise' method. This usually means you haven't loaded your ORM file or it's being loaded too late. To fix it, be sure to require 'devise/orm/YOUR_ORM' inside 'config/initializers/devise.rb' or before your application definition in 'config/application.rb' (RuntimeError)"
  • Dave: Fixed as of 9f406ad9290d32dec6f8530546919dbffc9641b8
• Default Solr port for development in application.yml and sunspot.yml do not match!
• Was having trouble getting Solr/Sunspot to start. Managed to get things up and running by deleting the /solr directory; it's regenerated by rake solr:sunspot:start. We should make sure that we're not copying over the old /solr directory as part of the install.

Questions

• Should I be installing the Supplejack gem in any particular part/env of the Gemfile?
  • Dave: No, it needs to be in all environments
• Can't we create a Rails Composer application template that'll package up all of these steps? It can live on github and we can install right from it
  • Dave: Good idea, we should look into creating a custom recipe thing

Pre-flight checklist

• Recommended Ruby version? (I started in 1.9.2 by accident and had to reinstall bundle after 'rvm use 1.9.2'.)
  • Dave: Ruby 385-p385
• Recommended Rubygems version?
• Recommended Rails version?
  • Dave: It's in the rails new _3.2.12_ command, so 3.2.12
• Recommended Solr version?
  • Dave: 4.1.0.2013.01.16.17.21.36. Solr is provided by sunspot_test gem, but you need to upgrade it to 4.1.0.
• Recommended Mongo version?
  • Dave: 2.4.6
• Solr & Mongo installation instructions? WHAT DO I NEED TO INSTALL FIRST? (Can figure it out by trial and error, but it's boring.)
  • Dave: You need Mongo first. You can test the API by requesting a record_id. Once that works, you can get search via Solr working
• Environment variables?
  • Dave: These are handled by config/application.yml

Nice to haves

• Didn't see generator install line first time... two "bundle install"s in a row confused me.
  • Dave: We could easily right a bash script which does all this for you