PlanetEx

PlanetEx is an Elixir application for aggregating employee and SharePoint blogs.

Getting started

Prerequisites

You'll need to install the following dependencies first:

• Elixir (version)
• Erlang (version)
• PostgreSQL 10
• Yarn
• Node (version)

Installing

If you have asdf installed, simply run asdf install in the root directory.

Run the bootstrap script to install the remaining dependencies and create your development database:

$ cd planet
$ bin/setup

To run the server: mix phx.server.

Running the tests, formatter, and linter

$ mix verify

==> mix format --check-formatted
==> mix credo
==> mix test.all

Releasing and Deployment

PlanetEx uses Distillery and Docker to build Erlang releases targeted for Ubuntu.

Prerequisites

• Docker
• Server provisioned with the following
  • Postgres 10
    • Can be hosted on the same machine as the release or seperately.
  • xvfb
  • Google Chrome
  • ChromeDriver

Release

• bin/docker-build - builds your Docker container.
  • You only need to do this once.
• bin/release - builds your Distillery release.
  • Build artifacts are located in /rel/artifacts

Deployment

Environment Variables

Required

• PORT
• DOMAIN
• POOL_SIZE
• SECRET_KEY_BASE
  • Can be generated using mix phx.gen.secret
• DATABASE_URL

Optional

• SHAREPOINT_CREDS
  • In order to aggregate blogs from protected SharePoint sites, you must supply credentials in the form of username:password

Deliver to remote host

• scp rel/artifacts/<your release> user@host:/path/to/release - Move release tar ball to the server.
• tar -xvf /path/to/release - unpack the release.

Start the server

• /path/to/release/bin/yourapp start - start the server in the background as a daemon
  • To stop the server - /path/to/release/bin/yourapp stop or
• /path/to/release/bin/yourapp foreground - start the server in the foreground (analogous to mix phx.server)

Database migrations

PlanetEx comes with a migration release task.

On the remote server, run /path/to/release/bin/yourapp migrate []

Built With

• Phoenix - Web framework
• TailwindCSS - CSS library

Contributors

• Paul Steele (ptsteele)
• Mitchell Hanberg (mhanberg)(alumni)

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PlanetEx is supported by SEP: a Software Product Design + Development company. If you'd like to join our team, don't hesitate to get in touch!