Shell commands

Django apps (Studio and LMS)

• 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 delete one course first locate your Organization, Course Number, and Course Name in the CMS> Settings> Schedule & Details page then issue this command. For configuration using the Installing edX on a single Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise) server instructions, please change 'env' to 'aws'.

#Command: rake django-admin[delete_course,cms,env,"{Organization}/{Course Number}/{Course Name} commit"]
rake django-admin[delete_course,cms,aws,"MITx/999/Robot_Super_Course commit"]

• 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"

• To sync the user info from cms/lms over to the comment service:

rake django-admin[sync_user_info,lms,dev]

Mongo (courseware)

• To list all the courses:

use xmodule
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