nairobi/doc/en/dev_test_setup_linux.md

Configuration for development and test environments (GNU/Linux)

Git

Git is officially maintained in Debian/Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install git

Ruby

Ruby versions packaged in official repositories are not suitable to work with consul (at least Debian 7 and 8), so we'll have to install it manually.

The preferred method is via rvm:

(only the multi user option installs all dependencies automatically, as we use 'sudo'.)

As local user:

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable

For all system users

curl -L https://get.rvm.io | sudo bash -s stable

and then add your user to rvm group

sudo usermod -a -G rvm <user>

and finally, add rvm script source to user's bash (~/.bashrc) (this step it's only necessary if you still can't execute rvm command)

[[ -s /usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm ]] && source /usr/local/rvm/scripts/rvm

with all this, you are suppose to be able to install a ruby version from rvm, as for example version 2.3.0:

sudo rvm install 2.3.0

Bundler

with

gem install bundler

or there is more methods here that should be better as:

gem install rubygems-bundler

PostgreSQL (>=9.4)

PostgreSQL version 9.4 is not official in debian 7 (wheezy), in 8 it seems to be officially maintained.

So you have to add a repository, the official postgresql works fine.

Add the repository to apt, for example creating file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list with:

deb http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt/ wheezy-pgdg main

afterwards you'll have to download the key, and install it, by:

wget https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc
apt-key add ACCC4CF8.asc

and install postgresql

apt-get update
apt-get install postgresql-9.4

Ghostscript

apt-get install ghostscript

Cloning the repository

Now, with all the dependencies installed, clone the Consul repository:

git clone https://github.com/consul/consul.git
cd consul
bundle install
cp config/database.yml.example config/database.yml
cp config/secrets.yml.example config/secrets.yml

Perhaps it's needed to create a superuser rol with password in postgresql, and write it in /config/database.yml 'user:' and 'password:' fields.

Also, it seems that postgresql use as default an unix socket for localhost communications. If we encounter problems creating database (connection problems) we can change in /config/database.yml the line:

host: localhost

for:

host: /var/run/postgresql

After this:

rake db:create
rake db:setup
rake db:dev_seed
RAILS_ENV=test bin/rake db:setup