Manual Setup

cortex-starter Preparation
As cortex itself is only a Rails Engine, it needs to be mounted within a parent Rails applicaton. cortex-starter serves as a starting point for new users, with cortex and cortex-plugins-core already mounted and configured with several example ContentTypes/Decorators. Start by cloning the repository:
$ git clone [email protected]:cortex-cms/cortex-starter.git && cd cortex-starter
Environment
Copy and rename the example .env.example file as .env and modify it to match your environment.
For a rudimentary setup, these variables should be configured:
Execute $ bin/rails secret twice to generate both an APP_SECRET and DEVISE_SECRET
If the superuser isn't used for the app databases, the DATABASE_USERNAME and DATABASE_PASSWORD should be set accordingly.
Dependencies
System
macOS
Install the Xcode Command Line tools:
$ xcode-select --install
Install all Cortex system-wide dependencies (and the readline Ruby/byebug build dependency) using Homebrew from the Brewfile via $ brew install $(cat Brewfile|grep -v "#")
Install Ruby via rbenv or rvm.
Enable system agents:
$ ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/postgresql/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
$ ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/elasticsearch/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
$ ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/redis/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
and start them with brew services:
$ brew services start postgresql
$ brew services start elasticsearch
$ brew services start redis
or launchctl:
$ launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist
$ launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.elasticsearch.plist
$ launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.redis.plist
Linux
Install all Cortex system-wide dependencies (and the readline Ruby/byebug build dependency) using your distribution's package manager (pacman, apt-get, yum, etc). For example, with Ubuntu's apt-get:
$ apt-get install libreadline6-dev postgresql postgresql-contrib redis-server openjdk-8-jre imagemagick jpegoptim ghostscript
Ubuntu and Redhat/Fedora do not have an official elasticsearch package - you must use Elasticsearch's repositories for APT or RPM or follow these manual instructions. The same goes for phantomjs. Build from source or use a PPA. Additionally, yarn will need its repository added for these distributions. Follow these instructions. Other Linux distributions likely have these as prebuilt packages in their official or user repositories.
Install Ruby via rbenv or rvm.
Enable & start system agents using your distribution's service manager frontend, which is likely systemd's frontend, systemctl:
$ systemctl enable --now postgresql elasticsearch redis
Application
Install Bundler and its dependencies:
$ gem install bundler && bin/bundle install
Install node dependencies using yarn:
$ bin/yarn install
Data Provisioning
Quick
cortex-starter ships with an automated setup script. Execute this in lieu of the Manual Setup steps below, if you're comfortable doing so:
$ bin/setup
Manual
Create databases:
$ bin/rails db:create
Initialize the schema:
$ bin/rails db:schema:load
Seed database with a top-level tenant, the superuser and Custom Content data, then rebuild the Elasticsearch index:
$ bin/rails db:seed
$ bin/rails cortex_starter:content_types:seed
$ bin/rails cortex:rebuild_indexes
Server
Start Cortex, Sidekiq and live Webpack rebuild via Foreman with the dev-server script:
$ bin/dev-server
The admin interface should now be accessible locally at http://localhost:3000. To access Cortex as superadmin, login as [email protected] with password welcome1.
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