CCI-MIT / POGS

The Platform for Online Group Studies (POGS) is a tool to study collective learning.

POGS

The Platform for Online Group Studies (POGS) is a tool to study collective learning.

Simple download and play procedure

1. Install Docker
2. Clone this repository, at the repo's root copy the sample.env file to a local .env file: cp sample.env .env This file has all the usernames and passwords used in the system. It is advised to change this on production setups.
3. At the repo's root directory run:

docker image prune
docker-compose up

On startup expect some issues with the node server, as it loads faster than the mysql initial server setup. It will automatically restart until the mysql

Open a browser window at : http://localhost:8080/initialize

Select the file found in others/T1ShortDemo.zip or another POGS generated study configuration dump file.

And click the button INITIALIZE

After confirmation go to: http://localhost:8080/admin

Use the following credentials:

User: [e-mail]

Password: pogs1234

The first time docker will install everything we need to run POGS, it may take a while. The next executions will be a lot faster. The .mysql/ dir will save database changes between server restarts.

To stop it just hit

ctrl + c

Development install procedure

1 Install all dependencies

• Install Java 8 JRE
• Install mysql-server 5.7
• Install nodejs (used for sass) version v9.11.1

On macs be sure to use the java 8 home

 "export JAVA_HOME=`/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8`;java -version"

2 On mysql create a new database:

CREATE SCHEMA pogs;

3 Open file application-database-config.yml Adjust the username and password to the ones you configured during the mysql database installation

  username: root
  password: 1234

4 Make sure that redis-server is running.

$redis-cli ping
PONG

if not start it with:

$redis-server & 

5 Go to the root directory and run

mvn clean compile package install 

6 Go to Intellij and use RUN the configuration called "POGS (development)". If you don't see that configuration, you can also run the application directly from the PlatformForOnlineGroupStudiesApplication class. Make sure you set the active profile to development, which enables hot reloading of static files.

or run as standalone server:

7 Run as standalone server:

In the root directory:

java -jar target/pogs-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar

If you are setting up the system in a RedHat remember to allow proxy to connect https://manastri.blogspot.com/2020/07/13-permission-denied-while-connecting.html

Instructions to fix broken etherpad update

mysql> alter database `etherpad_lite_db` CHARACTER SET = utf8mb4 COLLATE = utf8mb4_bin;
mysql> alter table `store` convert to character set utf8mb4 collate utf8mb4_bin;
mysql> alter table `store` change `key` `key` varchar(100) character set utf8mb4 collate utf8mb4_bin;
mysql> alter table `store` change `value` `value` longtext character set utf8mb4 collate utf8mb4_bin;