Ubuntu 24.04

Overview

  1. Assumes a clean install of the OS.
  2. Copy and paste each line, this is not intended to run as a shell script.
  3. Carefully read the instructions before each line before exectuting the line.
  1. Memory: 8 GB RAM
  2. Storage: 32 GB (when testing with Sandbox data)

Installation Instructions

Open a terminal.

sudo apt update && sudo apt dist-upgrade

Reboot the machine

sudo reboot

Reopen a terminal.

Install required packages.

sudo apt-get install -y bison ca-certificates cmake curl g++ gawk git gnupg imagemagick libgdbm-dev libgeos-dev libgmp-dev libmagickwand-dev libncurses5-dev libpq-dev libproj-dev libreadline-dev libyaml-dev meld pkg-config postgresql postgresql-contrib postgresql-postgis postgresql-postgis-scripts sqlite3 tesseract-ocr

When prompted do not supply a password. See below, the password must match config/database.yml if provided.

sudo -u postgres createuser -s -d -P taxonworks_development

Change permissions for posgresql, you are changing 'peer' to 'trust' for the matched line.

sudo sed -i.bak 's/local\s*all\s*all\s*peer/local all all trust/'  /etc/postgresql/16/main/pg_hba.conf
sudo service postgresql restart

Import Nodesource GPG key

sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource-repo.gpg.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg

Configure apt-get to point to newer Node packages

echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/nodesource.gpg] https://deb.nodesource.com/node_22.x nodistro main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list

Install Node

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs -y

Install RVM

gpg --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 409B6B1796C275462A1703113804BB82D39DC0E3 7D2BAF1CF37B13E2069D6956105BD0E739499BDB

\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

Configure your terminal to use RVM, in the menu bar of the terminal go to Menu -> Preferences. Under Profiles select your default profile (clean installation should list it as Unnamed). Then go to Command tab and check Run command as login shell.

Close the current terminal open a new one.

mkdir Projects
cd Projects
git clone https://github.com/SpeciesFileGroup/taxonworks.git
cd taxonworks

When you do cd taxonworks you will see a message regarding a particular version of Ruby. Install that version of Ruby with the command provided in the terminal. It will look something like: rvm install 3.3.7.

cd . # Refreshes rvm to pick up recently installed ruby above
gem install bundler

bundle
npm install

which geckodriver | grep -q snap && \ # Apply ff.snap only if geckodriver is in snap
cp config/application_settings.yml.ff.snap config/application_settings.yml;
cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
cp config/secrets.yml.example config/secrets.yml

bundle exec rake db:create && bundle exec bin/rails db:environment:set RAILS_ENV=development

bundle exec rake db:schema:load && bundle exec rake db:test:prepare

Run the test suite, you may see some failures, but the vast majority should pass.

# TMPDIR is a workaround to Firefox not being able to access /tmp due to being sandboxed by Snap
TMPDIR=$(pwd)/tmp bundle exec rake

If you receive any migration related errors when you run test suite, use the following command before proceeding ahead:

bundle exec rake db:migrate

Now proceed ahead to deploy the development server.

Deploy the development server

Before starting rails server it is recommended -but not strictly required- to start the Webpack development server first on a separate terminal so assets are rebuilt faster when developing:

./bin/shakapacker-dev-server

Alternatively you may run bundle exec rails assets:precompile (but any change you make will take longer to materialize when browsing).

Start the web server with the following command: (If you followed the recommendation above then wait for assets compilation to finish before proceeding)

bundle exec rails s

Navigate in your browser to 127.0.0.1:3000. To stop the development server return to the terminal window and type ctrl-c.

Optional

If you want to populate the development server with some dummy accounts do this:

bundle exec rake db:seed

The username for the dummy account is user@example.com and password is taxonworks. Note, this account is a regular user and does not have admin privileges. For admin privileges use admin@example.com (same password).

Required for development

If you plan on coding and committing back code you'll have had to configure git, at minimum do this

git config --global user.name "Jane Doe"
git config --global user.email developer@example.com
git config --global merge.tool meld

See also

Troubleshooting

If you are getting the following message running bundle exec rake db:create:

PG::ConnectionBad: FATAL: database "taxonworks_development" does not exist error.

You will have to create the database using postgresql console:

sudo -u postgres psql
create database taxonworks_development;
grant all privileges on database taxonworks_development to taxonworks_development;