Miscellany

Miscellany is a collaborative world building and campaign management tool tailored for tabletop RPG players and game masters.

Installation

After cloning the project, create the following files.

• .env
  • cp .env.example .env
  • You'll need to fill it out to your needs.
• public/.htaccess
  • If on Apache. You can run cp .htaccess.example public/.htaccess for quick development on docker.

Using Vagrant

Make sure you have composer, Vagrant and their dependencies installed and walk through the next steps:

Run command composer install - This will install all PHP-dependencies of the project

Then for Mac/Linux users, run:

php vendor/bin/homestead make

For Windows users, run:

vendor\\bin\\homestead make

Now you can run vagrant up to start your virtualized local dev environment.

For more information on Laravel Homestead check this link. We currently use the per-project installation.

You should now be able to vagrant ssh into your virtual machine.

Run the commands below after changing directory to code.

php artisan key:generate
php artisan storage:link
php artisan voyager:install
php artisan migrate
php artisan db:seed

That should cover you. You can now create an account. If you have errors on the dashboard, check that your roles table has entries, and that your user has a valid role_id value.

Using Docker

follow the step given above for creating the .env file, then modify it by deleting the following:

DB_HOST=mysql

Now add the following lines to your .env file:

# Docker
DOCKER_WEB_PORT=8000
DOCKER_MYSQL_PORT=3306

Start he containers by issuing the following command:

> docker-compose up -d --build

Note that the output stops before the web container is finished with everything that it needs to do so it may appear that everything is ready before you'll get a response from localhost in your browser. You can check the logs to see the status of the scripts that are run once the container is up.

docker-container logs -t

Concepts

The app revolves around the concept of Entities. This are for example:

• Characters
• Items
• Locations

Structure

Each entity is split between two tables:

• The entity table which contains some generic information available to all entities (name, id)
• A table for the specific data of the entity.

Sub content

Most entities can have n-to-n relations to other entities.

For example, there are Relations that link two entities together, as well as Attributes which contains n-to-1 custom data of an entity.

Assets

Assets can be compiled by following the Laravel Documentation

You'll need to install the various npm packages first.

npm install

Select2 needs to be forced to 4.0.5 because newer builds (4.0.7) break

npm install select2@4.0.5 --save

The following will produce assets for development

npm run dev

The following will produce assets for production

npm run prod

Development

The following rules apply when developing the application.

Issues

All improvement, feature or bug must be related to a ticket on github. Each commit must contain on the first row the name and ticket id of the issue related to the change.

Standards

Code must follow PSR-4 recommendations.

Migrations

All migrations should have a working down() function. Exceptions are allowed for migrations that alter lots of content.

GIT

Development should be done on your own fork of the repository in the develop branch, with substantial new features done in a separate branch.

Tagging is only done on the master branch.

Production

Once a feature is ready and tested, the admin will merge it into the master branch. There is no auto-deploy to the servers.

Translations

To work on translations, execute the following command to clean you translations and re-import them.

php artisan translations:reset
php artisan translations:import

In the database, change your user's is_translator to true._Navigate to /translations to start working on your translations. Add your new language to app/config/laravel-translation-manager.php if needed.

When you are finished, export your changes.

php artisan translations:export *

Vue translations

To generate the vue translations

php artisan vue-i18n:generate

Database Backup

To backup your database in a gzip file, Kanka uses the laravel backup manager execute the following command (adapt to your config)

php artisan db:backup --database=mysql --destination=s3 --compression=gzip --destinationPath=prod/ --timestamp="d-m-Y"

To restore a db, use the following

php artisan db:restore

Testing

The configuration for PHPUnit-Tests is in the file /phpunit.xml. Before the first run you have to run

php artisan setupTestDB --env=testing

to create and setUp the TestDatabase. Also if the Database-Schema changes or new migrations are added, you have to reset the Testing Database with this command.

The Configuration for the TestEnvironment can be found in the File /phpunit.xml and .env.testing. The Environment-Variables in both files need to be the same.

If everything is setup correctly you can run the tests by just calling

phpunit

in the project directory.