Okydoky

Okydoky is an automated documentation builder using Sphinx, GitHub and Distribute (which was setuptools). It makes your closed Python project to continuously build documentations, with the following assumptions:

1. Documentation is done using Sphinx.
2. Project is packaged through setuptools (not pip nor any others).
3. Source code is managed under GitHub.

To say shortly, it's simply a ReadTheDocs.org for private use.

How it works

It works in the following instructions:

1. When new commits are pushed, GitHub triggers Okydoky post-receive hook.
2. Okydoky downloads tarball archives of pushed commits from GitHub.
3. Tarball archive gets extracted into a temporary directory.
4. Sphinx builds the documentation.
5. When users request the docs using their web browser, Okydoky asks the user to authenticate using GitHub OAuth.
6. If they has the authorization, Okydoky serves a built docs.

How to use

It's an ordinary Python package. You can install it using easy_install:

$ easy_install Okydoky

This package provides a command line script called okydoky. It's a web application and also a small web server for itself. It takes a config file <config>.

Config files have to contain some required values like GitHub application key and secret key.

You have to create a GitHub application to use Okydoky. Its Callback URL is very important. Fill it with:

http://<host>/auth/finalize

and replaces <host> with the domain name what you'll use. And then, add a post-receive hook into your GitHub repository:

http://<host>/

If you make a config file, then run an Okydoky server using okydoky script:

$ okydoky -H 0.0.0.0 -p 8080 yourconfig.py

Lastly, you have to make an initial auth to finish installation. Open http://<host>/ in your web browser and login with GitHub from there.

Configuration

The config file is a normal Python script. It uses Flask's config system. Read Flask's docs about config files.

REPOSITORY

The user and repository name e.g. 'crosspop/okydoky'.

CLIENT_ID

The GitHub application's client key.

CLIENT_SECRET

The GitHub application's secret key.

SAVE_DIRECTORY

The path of the directory to store data. This directory will store some configured data, tarballs, and built documentations.

SECRET_KEY

The secret key to sign sessions. See Flask's docs about sessions also.

RECREATE_VIRTUALENV

Creates the new virtualenv for every build. It's a lot slower than not using this, but instead makes free from side effects related site-packages.

Set any nonzero value e.g. 1, True if you want to recreate the virtualenv everytime.

COMPLETE_HOOK

The callback function (any callable object) which is called when the build has complete. It's called for each commit, even if it failed.

It takes three positional parameters:

1. (basestring) Commit hash
2. (basestring) Permalink of the docs. It might be 404 if the build failed.
3. (tuple) Triple sys.exc_info() function returns if the build failed. None if the build succeeded.

You can utilize the last argument for printing the error traceback e.g.:

import traceback

def COMPLETE_HOOK(commit_id, permalink, exc_info):
    if exc_info is not None:
        traceback.print_exception(*exc_info)

Special environment variable: OKYDOKY

Okydoky sets the special environment variable named OKYDOKY during its build process. You can determine whether it's built by Okydoky or not.

For example, you can add some additional requirements only for Okydoky build in setup.py script:

import os
from setuptools import setup

install_requires = ['Flask', 'SQLAlchemy']

if os.environ.get('OKYDOKY'):
    install_requires.extend(['Sphinx', 'sphinxcontrib-httpdomain'])

setup(
    name='YourProject',
    install_requires=install_requires
)

Or conf.py for Sphinx:

import os

if os.environ.get('OKYDOKY'):
    html_theme = 'nature'
else:
    html_theme = 'default'

Open source

Okydoky is written by Hong Minhee for Crosspop. It's distributed under MIT license, and the source code can be found in the GitHub repository. Check out:

$ git clone git://github.com/crosspop/okydoky.git

Changelog

Version 0.9.7

To be released.

• A quick fix of hiding of some private repositories when there are many repositories in the organization. [#7 by Jökull Sólberg Auðunsson]

Version 0.9.6

Released on February 12, 2013.

• Added RECREATE_VIRTUALENV option which makes it to create the virtualenv for each build.
• Added COMPLETE_HOOK option.
• Try recreating the virtualenv if the build has failed first.
• Added --proxy-fix option for HTTP reverse proxies.
• Added --force-https option.
• Don't use github-distutils anymore to prevent several headaches related packaging and distribution.

Version 0.9.5

Released on September 16, 2012.

• GitHub forced state for OAuth. Follow that.

Version 0.9.4

Released on September 3, 2012.

• Use --upgrade option for setup.py develop command. This prevents version conflicts of dependencies.
• Build logs are left in the build.txt file.

Version 0.9.3

Released on July 18, 2012.

• Now the index page shows the list of refs.
• Now Okydoky sets OKYDOKY=1 environment variable during its build process. [#5]
• Add /head special ref url.
• Fixed a bug that the head is not set to the latest commit.

Version 0.9.2

Released on July 17, 2012. Hotfix of 0.9.1.

• Fixed a security bug: now users must have an authorization for the repository. [#4]

Version 0.9.1

Released on July 17, 2012. Hotfix of 0.9.0.

• Made okydoky package empty and moved things to okydoky.app module.

Version 0.9.0

Released on July 17, 2012.

• Initial version.