Development Instructions

We recommend that you do all file edits within your checkout of the Submitty GIT repository. This is a shared directory between the host machine and the virtual machine, so you can use your favorite code/text editor on your local machine.

The different stages of the installation and build process copy files from the repository to the installation directories, substitute variables, compile libraries, and change permissions. Depending on the type of change, you will need to do different levels of re-installation to test those changes. The instructions below apply to changes you have made within your local Submitty checkout (including pulling new code from GitHub or switching to another branch).

If you’ve made changes to files affecting the system installation process (changes to CONFIGURE_SUBMITTY.py, install_system.sh, Vagrantfile), you should re-create your VM from scratch to ensure the changes are correct. Exit the VM, and from a terminal your host machine within the Submitty GIT repository type:
```
vagrant destroy
vagrant up
```
NOTE: This process will take a bit of time (~30 minutes), and requires an internet connection. It will delete any assignments you’ve uploaded to your VM installation. And it will erase any files you have created/edited within your VM that are not part of the shared directory of the Submitty working repository. It will also destroy the databases, and any grading configuration or grading work that has been done.
Depending on the configuration/setup changes that you’re developing, you may be able to more quickly test those changes by re-provisioning the existing VM. Exit the VM, and from a terminal on your host machine within the Submitty GIT repository type:
```
vagrant reload --provision
```
If the vagrant box is not running, you would run the command:
```
vagrant up --provision
```

Alternately, in some cases it may be sufficient to refresh the submitty system configurations:

sudo python3 /usr/local/submitty/GIT_CHECKOUT/Submitty/.setup/CONFIGURE_SUBMITTY.py

And/or update existing databases:

sudo python3 /usr/local/submitty/GIT_CHECKOUT/Submitty/.setup/update_database.py

And then re-install the submitty sources:

sudo /usr/local/submitty/.setup/INSTALL_SUBMITTY.sh clean

If you’ve changed the script to create a new course (create_course.sh), or the schema for the course database (tables.sql), we need to delete all courses, and recreate the course databases, users, and sample submission uploads.

NOTE: To avoid accidental use on the live server, the partial reset script first checks for the existence of a .vagrant folder.

NOTE: You will need to not be connected to any DBs (such as through pgAdmin) or else running the below scripts could put things into a broken state.

Run this command:
```
sudo bash /usr/local/submitty/GIT_CHECKOUT/Submitty/.setup/bin/recreate_sample_courses.sh
```
If there are changes to the auxiliary Tutorial or AnalysisTools repos, you may also need to pull those changes:
```
sudo /usr/local/submitty/.setup/bin/update_repos.py
```

If you’ve changed INSTALL_SUBMITTY_HELPER.sh, or if you’ve changed any php/website files, re-install:
```
sudo /usr/local/submitty/.setup/INSTALL_SUBMITTY.sh
```
NOTE: This command uses rsync and should run reasonably fast since it’s only copying and rebuilding what has changed.

If you’ve moved/deleted files, it’s good to do a fresh install of the Submitty code:
```
sudo /usr/local/submitty/.setup/INSTALL_SUBMITTY.sh clean
```

When working on code in the site, bin, or sbin directories, you can enable a watcher to re-install the code for those folders whenver something in them changes:
```
sudo python3 /usr/local/submitty/GIT_CHECKOUT/Submitty/.setup/bin/code_watcher.py
```
This can be run from outside the vagrant machine by doing:
```
vagrant ssh -c "python3 /usr/local/submitty/GIT_CHECKOUT/Submitty/.setup/bin/code_watcher.py"
```

If you’ve changed the C++ code for the testing and autograding library, you must re-install the grading code (which rebuilds the grading library).

Or, if you’ve added or changed any of the sample provided assignments within the Submitty repository, they need to be copied from the repository to the installation location.

In either case, run:
```
sudo /usr/local/submitty/.setup/INSTALL_SUBMITTY.sh clean
```
NOTE: The clean argument is usually not necessary, and installation runs faster without it.

You will also need to re-run the BUILD_coursename.sh script for any courses that you’re using for testing, e.g.:
```
/var/local/submitty/courses/s17/course_01/BUILD_course_01.sh
```
Or re-run the BUILD script for all courses:
```
for s in /var/local/submitty/courses/*/*; do c=`basename $s`; ${s}/BUILD_${c}.sh; done
```
And see also Batch Regrade Homeworks

For convenience, here are the commands to copy-paste to install, build all courses, and regrade everything.
```
sudo /usr/local/submitty/.setup/INSTALL_SUBMITTY.sh clean && \
for s in /var/local/submitty/courses/*/*; do c=`basename $s`; ${s}/BUILD_${c}.sh; done && \
echo 'y' | /usr/local/submitty/bin/regrade.py /var/local/submitty/courses/ && \
/usr/local/submitty/bin/grading_done.py
```

If you’ve changed a homework configuration that is not from the Submitty respository sample assignments, just rebuild the course that uses that homework:
```
/var/local/submitty/courses/s17/course_01/BUILD_course_01.sh
```
And see also Batch Regrade Homeworks

If the VM has a clock skew (incorrect time)

sudo service ntp stop
sudo ntpd -gq
sudo service ntp start

If the JavaScript files have changed and there are errors or you do not see the changes then you may need to clear your browser’s cache

For Chrome: Choose the menu button, then “More tools”, then “Clear browsing data”

For Firefox: Choose the menu button, then “Options”, then “Advanced” in the “Network” tab under “Cached Web Content” click “Clear Now”

For Edge: Choose the Hub icon then the History icon, then “Clear all history”

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