Gestalt

This is Gestalt, a daemon that will track activity within your GitHub and Bitbucket organization(s) and report summaries via RESTful API.

For detailed API description, please see the draft on the project wiki.

For copying terms, see LICENSE file.

Building and running the service

You need the following installed in your system:

• Erlang version 18 or above
• rebar

First of all, you need to create a config for the service. We provide an example that you can copy and then edit:

$ cp rel/files/app.config.example rel/files/app.config
$ $EDITOR rel/files/app.config

Now run:

# fetch the dependencies
$ rebar get-deps
# compile the source
$ rebar compile

# generate the release
$ rebar generate
# You might get "WARN:  'generate' command does not apply to directory XYZ"
# It means you're running an older version of rebar. You can ignore the
# warning, or you can cd into rel directory before running `rebar generate`.
# See https://github.com/rebar/rebar/pull/254 for details

# start the service
$ ./rel/gestalt/bin/gestalt start
# if the above fails, claiming that Gestalt "is not an erlsrv controlled
# service", run the following instead:
$ ./rel/gestalt/bin/gestalt install
$ ./rel/gestalt/bin/gestalt start
# or this:
$ ./rel/gestalt/bin/gestalt console

You should now see Gestalt's public API responding at port 8080. You can also check if the service is alive by pinging it:

$ ./rel/gestalt/bin/gestalt ping

It's also possible to get a shell attached to the service:

$ ./rel/gestalt/bin/gestalt attach

(Note: you can quit by pressing ^D.)

To stop the service, run:

$ ./rel/gestalt/bin/gestalt stop