The main purpose of Messenger is sending emails to DSS users about updates, reminders , cancellations... of IT service degradations, outages or planned maintenance.
Messenger was written for Ruby 1.9 and Rails 3.2 and is deployed using Unicorn and PostgreSQL. It has been tested on Apache and Nginix and should run fine on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. It has not been tested with Microsoft's IronRuby, and as of this writing, IronRuby does not support Ruby 1.9, which is a requirement for this application.
Messenger also depends on DSS Roles Management (https://github.com/cthielen/roles-management).
Messenger is designed to be re-deployable in any organization, though there are a few matters of configuration that need to be attended to:
config/dss_rm.example.yml Move this file to config/dss_rm.yml and set the appropriate values.
config/environment.rb Recode the cas.ucdavis.edu URL to your CAS server, or remove CAS entirely. If you decide to remove CAS, also remove the before_action in app/controllers/application_controller.rb.
config/deploy.rb You'll likely want to set this to your own Capistrano setup or delete it if you do not use Capistrano.
docker-compose.example.yml Move this file to docker-compose.yml and set the appropriate values.
Run this command from project root to deploy to active docker-machine
docker-compose up -d
After initial deployment of the app you need to copy the SSL certificates:
docker cp ./certs/server.cer dssmessenger_web_1:/certs/messenger_dss_ucdavis_edu.cerdocker cp ./certs/server.key dssmessenger_web_1:/certs/messenger_dss_ucdavis_edu.key
You will also need to migrate the database, either from an existing sql dump:
docker cp ./dump.sql:/dump.sqldocker exec -it dssmessenger_db_1 bashsu - postgrespsql database_name < /dump.sql
Or, start with a fresh schema
docker-compose run -e RAILS_ENV=production web rake db:migrate db:seed
After copying SSL certificates and migrating DB, you need to restart the services:
docker-compose restart
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