jaryncolbert / automation_prime

automation_prime

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Developers: Getting Started

Devcontainers

The (hopefully) easiest way to get working is with VS Code and devcontainers.

To start, install:

• Docker (for Mac or Windows), or using your Linux distribution's package manager
• VS Code
• The VS Code Remote Containers extension

Next, in VS Code, open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and run Remote-Containers: Clone Repository in Container Volume.... Clone https://github.com/bedstuystrong/automation_prime, or fork that repo first and clone your fork.

Once it clones the repo, it will build your development environment in a container for you, and you'll be ready to go.

You can open a terminal and test that your environment is set up correctly:

$ python -m automation.scripts.local -h

Other Systems

Without devcontainers, you will need a recent version of Python 3. Run ./create_venv.sh to create a virtualenv and install automation_prime's dependencies, then activate that environment (source venv/bin/activate) and run pip install -e ..

Developers: Contributing

• To run tests: pytest automation/ from the root of your checkout

Environment

This section covers steps required for setting up the environment for the automation.

Staging Airtable

1. Duplicate production base, including records and excluding comments
2. Rename base to "STAGING"
3. Add automation bot user to staging base (with editor permissions)
4. Get base ID: go to airtable.com/api, select the staging base, and copy the base ID into your config.json

Migration Notes

• All tables must have a new field _meta_last_seen_status (single line text type)
• NOTE that as opposed to the vintage automation, all records with {Status} = BLANK() are ignored
• Members table:
  • Add a new status choice: New
  • Update form to include status field with New as the only option