Quality/QA-tools/CrashReports/Setting up the development environment

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Install Node.js 3 Install Node Package Manager 4 Install mongodb 5 Set up Crash Reports 6 Start the server

Introduction

Crash Reports is a Node.js application. It is written in coffee-script and uses mongodb database. You need to install some awesome open source tools to get the development environment up and running.

Install Node.js

(uses v0.4.5 stable package)

1. $ wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.4.5.tar.gz
2. $ gunzip node-v0.4.5.tar.gz
3. $ tar -xf node-v0.4.5.tar
4. $ cd node-v0.4.5
5. $ ./configure
6. $ make
7. $ sudo make install

Install Node Package Manager

(uses v1.0.1rc7 stable branch)

1. $ git clone https://github.com/isaacs/npm.git
2. $ cd npm
3. $ git checkout v1.0.1rc7
4. $ sudo make install

If your environment does not allow git protocol, make install will fail because of fetching the submodules. This can be fixed by changing the submodule URLs:

1. $ git config submodule.node_modules/abbrev.url https://github.com/isaacs/abbrev-js.git
2. $ git config submodule.node_modules/nopt.url https://github.com/isaacs/nopt.git
3. $ git config submodule.node_modules/semver.url https://github.com/isaacs/node-semver.git

Install mongodb

1. $ sudo apt-get install mongodb

Set up Crash Reports

Get the source and install dependencies

1. $ git clone git://gitorious.org/meego-quality-assurance/crash-reports.git
2. $ cd crash-reports
3. $ npm install

Start the server

1. Start the server: $ ./run-server.sh
2. Browse to http://localhost:3040 to verify that server is running

The server will start in development mode using node-supervisor, which watches for code changes and restarts the server accordingly.