Shell commands

Django apps (Studio and LMS)

• To run django admin commands use manage.py with the following syntax:

path/to/edx-platform/manage.py  [lms|cms]  --settings=aws <cmd>

For example to see all of the available lms commands on the single server vagrant image:

sudo -u edxapp /edx/bin/python.edxapp /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/manage.py lms --settings=aws help

• To create a superuser account on the edX vagrant image

sudo -u edxapp /edx/bin/python.edxapp /edx/app/edxapp/edx-platform/manage.py lms --settings=aws
createsuperuser --username <user>

• To get rid of existing courses. Note this will not clear out data on the django side like course groups:

mongo xmodule --eval "db.dropDatabase()"
mongo xcontent --eval "db.dropDatabase()"

• To seed the permissions for the comment service for user 'robot' course MITx/999/Robot_Super_Course

export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=lms.envs.dev
export PYTHONPATH=.
django-admin.py seed_permissions_roles "MITx/999/Robot_Super_Course"
django-admin.py assign_role robot Moderator "MITx/999/Robot_Super_Course"
django-admin.py assign_role robot Administrator "MITx/999/Robot_Super_Course"

Mongo (courseware)

• To list all the courses:

use edxapp
db.modulestore.find( { "_id.category" : "course" }, {'name':'1'} )

• To find all the updates for courses numbered 999:

db.modulestore.find({'_id.course': '999','_id.name':'updates'})

• To remove courses numbered 999 from all orgs. Note this will not clear out data on the django side like course groups:

db.modulestore.remove({'_id.course': '999'})

Comment Service

• To run the automated tests:

rspec spec

• To delete the comment service db:

mongo cs_comments_service_development --eval "db.dropDatabase()"

• To reinitialize the comment service db:

bundle exec rake db:init

• To re-index the db (must have some data in it):

bundle exec rake db:reindex_search

• To start up the comment service:

ruby app.rb