Problems with Typo

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Hi, all...

For the second night, I'm playing with Typo. It seems pretty cool,
but I'm having trouble configuring it.

Basically I create all three databases (I'm using MySQL).

But then when I start the server (and go to /admin in the browser),
it behaves differently for each database!

   -e production

      Runs, but asks me for a login. Don't know how to login or
      create an account.

   -e test

      Says '/' isn't found.

   -e development

      Seems to work -- prompts me to create a user, then goes on to
      ask for name of blog, etc.

So what is going on here??

Thanks,
Hal

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* Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> [0617 02:17]:

Hi, all...

For the second night, I'm playing with Typo. It seems pretty cool,
but I'm having trouble configuring it.

Basically I create all three databases (I'm using MySQL).

But then when I start the server (and go to /admin in the browser),
it behaves differently for each database!

  -e production

     Runs, but asks me for a login. Don't know how to login or
     create an account.

It only asks you to signup if a User doesn't exist yet:

  eris% grep -C 2 verify_user_exists app/controllers/articles_controller.rb
    cache_sweeper :blog_sweeper, :only => "comment"
    
    before_filter :verify_user_exists
    before_filter :verify_config
    
    private
    
      def verify_user_exists
        redirect_to :controller => "accounts", :action => "signup" if User.find_all.length == 0
      end
  eris%

So presumably your live db has a user record in it already.

  -e test

     Says '/' isn't found.

Wouldn't expect that to work sensibly - the test db is for the testsuite, I'm not sure it's going to do
sane things if you actually try to use it.

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Dick Davies wrote:

It only asks you to signup if a User doesn't exist yet:

That makes sense.

So presumably your live db has a user record in it already.

I just created the database and then installed Typo. So I
assumed there would be no users.

However, I see now you're correct: There are five users there,
such as bob, longbob, and existingbob. :slight_smile: Maybe I contaminated
the db somehow...

I'll trucate that and try again.

-e test

    Says '/' isn't found.

Wouldn't expect that to work sensibly - the test db is for the testsuite, I'm not sure it's going to do
sane things if you actually try to use it.

OK... I assumed that since it was for test purposes, it would also
work for a (manual) test of the interface...

Thanks,
Hal

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* Hal Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> [0616 00:16]:

Dick Davies wrote:

>So presumably your live db has a user record in it already.

However, I see now you're correct: There are five users there,
such as bob, longbob, and existingbob. :slight_smile: Maybe I contaminated
the db somehow...

They're users from the testsuite (see test/fixtures/users.yml),
so maybe you got the db mixed up with the live one or something?

OK... I assumed that since it was for test purposes, it would also
work for a (manual) test of the interface...

It'd be nice if it did, but I wouldn't count on it :slight_smile:
Running development with breakpoints enabled is fantastic if you need to debug
bits and pieces of your app.

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