Running the CMS

One can start the CMS by running rake cms. This will run the server on localhost port 8001.

However, the server also needs data to work from.

Installing Mongodb

Please see http://www.mongodb.org/downloads for more detailed instructions.

sudo apt-get install mongodb

Use the MacPorts package mongodb or the Homebrew formula mongodb

Check out the course data directories that you want to work with into the GITHUB_REPO_ROOT (by default, ../data). Then run the following command:

rake django-admin[import,cms,dev,../data]

Replace ../data with your GITHUB_REPO_ROOT if it's not the default value.

This will import all courses in your data directory into mongodb

This runs all the tests (long, uses collectstatic):

rake test

If if you aren't changing static files, can run rake test once, then run

rake fasttest_{lms,cms}

xmodule can be tested independently, with this:

rake test_common/lib/xmodule

To see all available rake commands, do this:

rake -T

To run a single django test class:

django-admin.py test --settings=lms.envs.test --pythonpath=. lms/djangoapps/courseware/tests/tests.py:TestViewAuth

To run a single django test:

django-admin.py test --settings=lms.envs.test --pythonpath=. lms/djangoapps/courseware/tests/tests.py:TestViewAuth.test_dark_launch

To run a single nose test file:

nosetests common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/tests/test_stringify.py

To run a single nose test:

nosetests common/lib/xmodule/xmodule/tests/test_stringify.py:test_stringify