Toolbox

The collection of tools for newcomer (refugee) aid groups that make up the Distribute Aid platform.

Live Demo

The current CI/CD pipeline at .github/workflows/ci.yml implements the bare minimum steps that compiles, tests, packages and deploys new toolbox docker image into a Kubernetes cluster freely hosted by Okteto Cloud

This live demo gets updated with every commit to the saga branch.

Contributing

Read our Development workflow guide to get started

1. Run through the installation steps (see Up & Running below).
2. Make a new branch off master and write some code. Test it. ;)
3. Push the new branch and make a pull request through gitlab.
4. We'll review your changes. Commit further changes to the same branch and push them as needed.
5. Once it's ready, we'll approve your pull request and merge your branch into master. They will be deployed along with other updates during our regular releases.

Links

Distribute Aid:

• Landing site: https://distributeaid.org/
• Tools: https://toolbox.distributeaid.org/
• Facebook: https://facebook.com/DistributeAidDotOrg
• Patreon: https://patreon.com/distributeaid

Elixir (programming language):

• Official website: https://elixir-lang.org/
• Getting started guide: https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html
• Docs: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.7.4/Kernel.html - NOTE: we are not using the latest version of Elixir just yet.

Phoenix (webserver framework):

• Official website: http://www.phoenixframework.org/
• Docs: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/overview.html
• Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/phoenix-talk
• Source: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix

Ecto (database framework & ORM):

• Docs: https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/Ecto.html

Up & Running

Setup Docker

1. Install Docker - https://docs.docker.com/install/
2. Install Docker Compose - https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/
3. Start the Docker daemon.
   • MacOS / Windows: Start the Docker application.
   • Linux: follow these post-install steps. Especially "managing docker as non-root" and "configure docker to start on boot".

See the Common Docker Commands section below for more info about how we use Docker.

Clone The Project

git clone git@github.com:distributeaid/toolbox.git
cd toolbox/

Run Containers

• Start: docker-compose up
• Stop: ctrl-c in the same window, or docker-compose down in another

When starting the containers, once you see this message it is ready:

[info] Running FerryWeb.Endpoint with Cowboy using http://0.0.0.0:1312

See the Common Docker Commands section below for a list of container names.

Run the Front End

$ cd toolbox/react_ui
$ npm i
$ npm start

Your browser will automatically open the UI.

The localhost address is used in the rest of this readme, but the 0.0.0.0 address should be the same thing.

See the front-end README for further info on contributing to the front end.

Dev Environment

You'll need AWS credentials to integrate with Cognito for authentication. Copy the example config, then update with keys from the AWS console or CLI.

cp .env.secret.example .env.secret

If you don't have AWS credentials yet, ask someone on the team. Still run the command above, the app will run without proper creds, but you will not be able to use authenticated features.

Format your code before committing. In order to do that, please setup a pre commit hook by doing:

$ ln -s -f ../../hooks/pre-commit ./.git/hooks/pre-commit

Troubleshooting

If you see that a container has exited with code 127 (e.g. "toolbox_web exited with code 127"), in your terminal:

• close that container with ctrl-c

• run $ docker-compose build to ensure you rebuild the service in case its Dockerfile or contents of its build directory has changed.

• run $ docker-compose up to restart the container.

• in another terminal window, run $ docker ps -a, and check that toolbox_web image is running on port 0.0.0.0:1312->1312/tcp. For example:

  CONTAINER ID        IMAGE               COMMAND                  CREATED             STATUS                    PORTS                           NAMES
  086b5fc29e52        toolbox_web         "/bin/sh -c '/app/de…"   42 minutes ago      Up 32 minutes             0.0.0.0:1312->1312/tcp          toolbox_web
  

Additional problems

• Try not to have PostgreSQL running locally (potential conflict issues).
• Fix incorrect development folder permissions with: chmod -R +x development/.

To verify that the seeds ran correctly select all entries in the groups table (there should be 1). You can do this from PG Admin or the command line. See the Managing Dev Databases below for how to connect via the command line, then use the following SELECT statement:

SELECT * FROM groups;

API

If everything is running correctly, you should be able to visit http://localhost:1312/health or http://0.0.0.0:1312/health and see the health check:

[
  {
    db_access: {
      status: "ok"
    },
    time: 1.66
  }
]

A GraphQL API is provided at /api. The Absinthe docs are a good starting place to learn more about GraphQL in the context of elixir.

You can use a browser implementation of graphiql to view the schema documentation and run test queries: http://localhost:1312/api/graphiql

Common Docker Commands

Docker's commandline documentation: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/

• docker ps -a - List containers. Very useful for getting a container's name, id, or status. For more information see Docker's ps documentation.
• docker exec $CONTAINER_NAME $COMMAND - Execute a command on a container. For more information see here Docker's exec documentation.
• docker exec -it $CONTAINER_NAME /bin/bash - Enter a bash shell on a container where you can run multiple mix commands in a row. This is very useful for the web container.

Our docker container names are:

• toolbox_web - The elixir dev server. All mix commands will be run on this container.
• toolbox_db - Our dev database. This is the database that you interact with from the locally hosted development site.
• dbtest - Our test database. mix test and MIX_ENV=test $command will both use this database.
• dbadmin - The PG Admin server.

Common Mix Commands

Phoenix:

• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/phoenix_mix_tasks.html#content
• You can also lookup each individual task in the mix section of the left side menu.
• See /development/web-entrypoint.sh for common commands that are run when you start the containers.

# list all routes in the app
docker exec toolbox_web mix phx.routes

# code generation (look these up in the docs- many options)
# NOTE: Don't run code generation tasks through the Docker container.
#       They generated files will have the wrong permissions.
mix phx.gen.schema [OPTIONS]
mix phx.gen.context [OPTIONS]
mix phx.gen.html [OPTIONS]

Ecto:

• https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/Mix.Tasks.Ecto.html (select a specific task in the left side menu)

docker exec toolbox_web mix ecto.migrate
docker exec toolbox_web mix ecto.rollback -n 1
docker exec toolbox_web mix ecto.reset

docker exec toolbox_web mix ecto.gen.migration "migration name"

Testing:

• https://hexdocs.pm/mix/Mix.Tasks.Test.html
• https://github.com/parroty/excoveralls#mix-coveralls-show-coverage

docker exec toolbox_web mix test --color

# run specific tests- all in a folder, all in a file, or even just a single one
docker exec toolbox_web mix test --color test/$PATH_TO_FOLDER_OR_FILE
docker exec toolbox_web mix test --color test/$PATH:$TEST_LINE_NUMBER

# run tests synchronously, in order
docker exec toolbox_web mix test --color --trace

# for code coverage
docker exec toolbox_web mix coveralls
docker exec --env MIX_ENV=test toolbox_web mix coveralls.html

Mix commands can be targeted to the test environment / database by setting an environment variable MIX_ENV=test. There are three ways to do this:

1. Specify an environment variable using docker exec's --env flag. EX: docker exec --env MIX_ENV=test toolbox_web mix ecto.reset
2. Run a shell command which executes another command that starts by setting the environment variable. EX: docker exec toolbox_web sh -c "MIX_ENV=test mex ecto.reset.
3. Finally, you can always open a bash shell on the web container and run the commands directly. EX: docker exec -it toolbox_web /bin/bash and then MIX_ENV=test mix ecto.reset in the shell.

Code Quality

Format your code before committing. In order to do that, please setup a pre commit hook by doing:

$ ln -s -f ../../hooks/pre-commit ./.git/hooks/pre-commit

# credo performs static code analysis
docker exec toolbox_web mix credo list

# to learn more about a particular issue in credo
docker exec toolbox_web mix credo explain file/and/linenumber.ex:101

# format a file in the standard elixir style
docker exec toolbox_web mix format "path/to/file.ex"
docker exec toolbox_web mix format "pattern/**/path/*.{ex,exs}"

Managing Dev Databases

PG Admin: With the docker containers running, go to http://localhost:8088 in your browser. Log in with username admin and password admin. You should now be able to use the PG Admin GUI to manage your local dev databases.

psql: If you prefer to use the commandline, you can run psql in the database docker containers:

# dev database
docker exec -it toolbox_db sh -c "psql -U toolbox -d toolbox_dev"

# test database
docker exec -it dbtest sh -c "psql -U toolbox -d toolbox_dev"

TODO

Generating a database diagram

Ensure that:

• You have Java installed (brew install openjdk)
• A running Postgres
• The following env variables are set: POSTGRES_USER, POSTGRES_PASSWORD, POSTGRES_DB, POSTGRES_HOST

Then:

• update your schema: mix ecto.migrate
• generate the diagram: mix db.diagram

This task will run Schemaspy and generate a diagram in PNG format at docs/db/diagram.png.

Please don't forget to commit this file to source control.

Deployment

You must have SSH access to the target environment to perform these steps. Reach out via Slack if you feel you need to deploy.

Move to the Ansible directory:

cd ./ansible

Install the Datadog playbook:

ansible-galaxy install datadog.datadog

Deploy with the following playbook command:

ansible-playbook \
  -i aws_ec2.yml \
  -u ec2-user \
  --extra-vars "version={:branch-name-dash-short-hash} env={:env}" \
  --private-key ~/.ssh/{:your-deploy-key} \
  deploy.yml

Copyright & Licensing

Our source code is released under the AGPLv3 license. You can find the full license in LICENSE.md. The license notice has been included below:

Toolbox: Web tools for refugee aid groups.

Copyright (C) 2018-2019 Distribute Aid

https://distributeaid.org --- code@distributeaid.org

Toolbox is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Affero General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License along with this program. If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

TODO: Ensure the short version of license notice appears in each source code file.

TODO: Ensure that appropriate code license & content license notices appear on each page of the site.

TODO: Document licenses of all libraries used.