Pushkin is a scalable ecosystem for psychological surveys and tests.

It consists of 5 key parts

Pushkin-Api

Pushkin-Cli

Pushkin-DB

Pushkin-Worker

Pushkin-Cron

Why Pushkin

Assumptions

1. You are somewhat familiar with isntalling programs and understand what your terminal is and how to use it.
2. You have access to a text editor like sublime/notepad++/etc.
3. Docker is installed on your machine

Getting started

Development Mode

1. docker-compose -f docker-compose.debug.yml up

Deploying

Deploy Instructions Here

Directory Structure

Common Tasks

Cronjobs

Pushkin makes adding a cron job easy,

1. just add the file script you want ran in games-with-words-cron/scripts.
2. Add a line calling that file in games-with-words-cron/crontab

Each one of those files has access to the environment variables created in the docker file.

DB Connection is available as DATABASE_URL and the message queue as AMPQ_ADDRESS.

Right now we only support python and node.js cron tabs. feel free to modify the Dockerfile to add a different environment you may need.

Documentation

Docs can be created by running npm install, then npm run docs.

JS Docs are available for this project, all the document files are located in your pushkin/docs folder. For more information about JS Docs, please visit JS Docs.

Add Js Docs

You could add a piece of Js Docs anywhere for any functions through out the whole project by using this syntax :

  /**
   * creates a new controller with specified name
   * @method ControllerManager#generate
   * @param {String} name - name of controller to create
   * @memberof ControllerManager
   */

This will get compiled down in your pushkin/docs folder and available for view. Please read the Compile section of this readme for more info.

Config

Please feel free to modify jsdoc.conf.json located in your main pushkin folder. This config file handles the main configuration of JS Docs compile settings. You could include or exclude any additional source folders for JS Docs to look in or ignore by editing the include and exclude section of this JSON file. You could also include a README as the home page of your js docs by adding README.md in the include section of this file. JS Docs looks for the first README.md it could find and make use of that.

Compile

After you've added/deleted/edited/changed any your JS Docs, you will have to recompile for the changes to apply.

1. make sure you've all npm pacages installed in your 'pushkin' folder by executing npm install
2. execute npm run docs to compile
3. open up pushkin/docs/index.html to see your newly updated JS Docs

Roles and Permissions

Acknowledgements

Josh DeLieuw of jspsych