Running the development environment

The development environment runs on the local host. It allows to run/test/debug web2py applications.

Install

• Install the common tools for example in ~/mywap/w2pext

    > cd ~/mywap/w2pext
    > git clone https://gitlab.in2p3.fr/w2pext/utilities

• Create the script dev for example in ~/bin

    #!/usr/bin/bash
    ~/mywap/w2pext/utilities/dev.py $* 

• Make the script dev executable:

    > cd ~/bin
    > chmod +x dev

• Build the docker images w2pext-degs:x.y.z with web2py and third party libraries. The docker daemon has to run and you need privileges to run docker commands).

    > cd ~/mywap/w2pext
    > git clone https://gitlab.in2p3.fr/w2pext/docker
    > cd docker
    > ./build.py

Run

• The code of your application is in ~/mywap/myapp

• Create the configuration file ~/mywap/docker/dev.json for the dev container:

    {
        "/home/me/mywap/myapp": [
            "/opt/web2py/applications/myapp"
        ]
    }

• Run the dev container

    > dev

• The URL to access to your application is http://localhost:8000/myapp

• Try, for more information:

    > dev -h