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- Vagrant guide
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- A quick way to get a development environment up and running is with Vagrant. You will need recent versions of [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/) and [VirtualBox](https://www.virtualbox.org/) installed.
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- ## Basic setup
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- Install the latest versions of Vagrant and VirtualBox for your operating systems, and then run:
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- vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostsupdater
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- This is optional, but will update your 'hosts' file when you start the virtual machine, allowing you to access the site at http://mastodon.dev (instead of http://localhost:3000).
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- To create and provision a new virtual machine for Mastodon development:
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- git clone git@github.com:tootsuite/mastodon.git
- cd mastodon
- vagrant up
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- Running `vagrant up` for the first time will run provisioning, which will:
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- - Download the Ubuntu 14.04 base image, if there isn't already a copy on your machine
- - Create a new VirtualBox virtual machine from that image
- - Run the provisioning script (located inside the Vagrantfile), which installs the system packages, Ruby gems, and JS modules required for Mastodon
- - Run the startup script
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- ## Starting the server
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- The Vagrant box will automatically start after provisioning. It can be started in future with `vagrant up` from the mastodon directory.
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- Once the Ubuntu virtual machine has booted, it will run the startup script, which loads the environment variables from `.env.vagrant` and then runs `rails s -d -b 0.0.0.0`. This will start a Rails server. You can then access your development site at http://mastodon.dev (or at http://localhost:3000 if you haven't installed vagrants-hostupdater). By default, your development environment will have an admin account created for you to use - the email address will be `admin@mastodon.dev` and the password will be `mastodonadmin`.
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- To stop the server, simply run `vagrant halt`.
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- ## Using the server
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- You should now have a working Mastodon instance, although it will not federate, as it is not publicly accessible. Should you need temporary federation for development and testing, see the Ngrok information in the [Development Guide](Development-guide.md).
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- By default, your instance's ActionMailer will use "Letter Opener Web" for email. This means that any email that would normally be sent, will instead be stored, and accessible at http://mastodon.dev/letter_opener - you can use this to verify a registered user account.
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- ## Making changes/developing
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- You are able to set environment variables, which are used for Mastodon configuration, by editing the `.env.vagrant` file. Any changes you make will take effect after a Vagrant restart.
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- Vagrant has mounted your mastodon folder inside the virtual machine. This means that any change to the files in the folder(e.g. the Rails controllers or the React components in /app) should immediately take effect on the live server. This allows you to make and test changes, and create new commits, without ever needing to access the virtual machine.
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- Should you need to access the virtual machine (for example, to manually restart the Rails process without restarting the box), run `vagrant ssh` from the mastodon folder. You will now be logged in as the `vagrant` user on the VirtualBox Ubuntu VM. You will want to `cd /vagrant` to see the app folder.
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- ## Debugging
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- You can find the Rails server logs in in the `log` folder, which will often have the information you need.
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- If your Mastodon instance or Vagrant box are really not behaving, you can re-run the provisioning process. Stop the box with `vagrant halt`, and then run `vagrant destroy` - this will delete the virtual machine. You may then run `vagrant up` to create a new box, and re-run provisioning.
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- ## Testing
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- To run the `rspec` tests and `rubocop` style checker, you may either:
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- * Install the relevant gems locally, or
- * SSH into the virtual machine, `cd /vagrant`, and then run the commands
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- ## Support/help
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- If you are confused, or having any issues with the above, the Mastodon IRC channel ( irc.freenode.net #mastodon ) is a good place to find assistance.
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