Settin' Up
This weekend I installed an Ubuntu Linux VM on my Windows 7 laptop and set about going through Discourse as Your First Rails App. I'll basically end up with a VM within a VM...kinda neat but kinda worrisome. Prayin' for ya, my wee ASUS.
Coach Kurtis said to read through Vagrant's Getting Started guide as well, since it's what Discourse uses for its VM. Vagrant provides a configured, portable work environment, so that anyone can simply download it and have it up and running quickly.
So far, I still haven't gotten Vagrant to run the Discourse VM yet since it keeps hanging. Hope I can get it working soon.
P.S. I wonder if Kurtis would mind if I called him Captain Kurt.
Hello, Mentors
...or in other words, shit just got real (and exciting)!
I've just had my first Google Hangout with our mentors Robin Ward and Sam Saffron. Unfortunately, Vyki couldn't really join in as she was in the woods of Washington for a family reunion. Still, Robin, Sam, our coach Kurtis and I were able to discuss our plans for Discourse.
Our goal for the summer will be to extract all oneboxing into one gem. Oneboxing is a feature of Discourse where if you include a link to a site (i.e. Twitter, Wikipedia), it will try to create a usable snippet for you automatically. By extracting this feature into a gem, it can be usable by projects other than Discourse, and will also make testing much easier since the code will be more modularized.
If time permits, we'll also be implementing oneboxing for other often-used sites that aren't supported yet.
To start out, we're gonna:
- get Discourse running in our own dev environments using Vagrant/VirtualBox (using this tutorial)
- get Discourse test environment running
- create a thread on meta.discourse forum introducing ourselves to the community there
I'm feeling pretty lucky to have these awesome guys supporting us. Allons! Let's go!
Hello, World
It's business time.
