Running the website on windows

[FabienTregan]

Hi, I tryed to run the server on windows following the instructions in https://github.com/exercism/website/blob/master/README.md and needed to add a few step (I know some of them are windows related, not sure they all are.)

• before installing Ruby, I needed to install CMake
• add this line to gemfile : gem 'tzinfo-data', platforms: [:mingw, :mswin, :x64_mingw] (unwanted on linux)
• before running any of the bundle commands, I hade to install bundle : gem install bundler
• after the mysql commands, I hade to mysql -e "ALTER USER 'exercism_reboot'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'exercism_reboot'" -u root -p, maybe I was missing a lib to use the default authentification method (that seemed a better solution but I don't know anything about ruby / rails)
• bundle exec rake bin/setupdid not create the tables, bin/setup gives and error. I hadet to rake db:drop db:create db:schema:load

then http://localhost:3000 complains about missing //= require simplemde/dist/simplemde.min.js. I could manual fix the problem in an hugly way, but then another .js was unfound. Ihid on slack told me :

The bin/setup should have ran "yarn install" which should have installed the assets. You shouldn't need to add it to the gemfile. [...]

Maybe the problem is that I don't have yarn installed.

I'm not in a hurry to run the server locally, but wanted to trace my experience while am still uneperienced.

[iHiD]

@FabienTregan Thanks so much for documenting your steps.

bin/setup gives and error

Could you tell me what error this gives pls?

[FabienTregan]

From a git bash :

$ ./bin/setup
The Gemfile's dependencies are satisfied

== Command ["bin/rails db:setup"] failed ==
== Installing dependencies ==

== Preparing database ==

[FabienTregan]

Update : after deleting / recreating the tables, installing yarn and restarting bin/setup, It now creates the tables but still fails at finding the selectize.js script :

$ bin/setup
The Gemfile's dependencies are satisfied

== Command ["bin/rails db:setup"] failed ==
== Installing dependencies ==

== Preparing database ==

Fabien@[...]/nextercism/website (master)
$ bin/rails db:setup
[...]
-- create_table("exercise_topics", {:options=>"ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci", :force=>:cascade})
   -> 0.0618s
-- create_table("exercises", {:options=>"ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci", :force=>:cascade})
   -> 0.0662s
-- create_table("friendly_id_slugs", {:options=>"ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci", :force=>:cascade})
   -> 0.0820s
-- create_table("ignored_solution_mentorships", {:options=>"ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_unicode_ci", :force=>:cascade})rails aborted!
ActionView::Template::Error: couldn't find file 'selectize/dist/js/standalone/selectize.js' with type 'application/javascript'
Checked in these paths:

[kytrinyx]

This repo is being deprecated. We've imported this issue to the https://github.com/exercism/exercism.io repository.