General ICEWATCH Information

Icewatch is the rails application to help with data collection for ice observations.
See the http://icewatch.gina.alaska.edu website for details.

This is distributed as a JRuby application called ASSIST.

installing the python module for assist 2 aspect conversions

cd to the python directory and run

<path_to_systempython>/python2.7 setup.py install or develop if you wish to modify the python code

Building distributable ASSIST java app

A vagrant box is provided to build the distributable ASSIST java app for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

Start the VM:

$ vagrant up

Then run these commands which will also be echoed by the vagrant up command:

1) vagrant ssh
2) gem install bundler
3) cd /assist
4) bundle install
5) export RAILS_ENV=production
6) bundle exec rake assist:package

Developing on the webapp

see README-deploy-icewatch.rst

Set admins

rake admin:user will set logged in users as the admins

Manual bundle of assist launcher zip archive

cd exports zip -r ASSIST_v4.1.zip * cd ../public rm ASSIST_v4.1.zip mv ../exports/ASSIST_v4.1.zip ./