Enviroment Develop : Setup Canvas

[jbedons...@gmail.com]

Hi,

I'm trying to do changes on canvas lms, but when i have to check the changes, i have to run the command "bundle exec rake canvas:compile_assets" but it takes a long time to process it.

I have created a instance on a Virtual Machine following the production guide tutorial. I would like to setup in a develop enviroment 

[Simon Williams]

I assume you’ve already seen https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/wiki/Quick-Start.  You can also run “guard” in a terminal which will watch for changes to coffeescript or sass and compile files on the fly as they change. 

Simon

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[Graham Ballantyne]

If you're changing JS, CSS or CoffeeScript files and running in production mode, then yes you need to recompile assets to see the change. If you're changing ruby files then you don't need to recompile assets, but you do need to restart Canvas. 

For development work, you should probably be running in development mode (RAILS_ENV=development). It will use uncompiled static assets and ruby classes will be reloaded on each page view so it will be very slow. If you need to run in production but don't want to have to recompile assets, you can tweak config/environments/production.rb (I think, not at a computer right now) to not used compiled JS. You don't want to run in actual production like that, though. 

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[Simon Williams]

Note that you can turn off class reloading in development mode with the tip at the bottom of https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/wiki/Quick-Start#performance-tweaks.  Most of us at instructure prefer to take the penalty of manually restarting the server after making a ruby change rather than having all page loads be slow while developing.  We’re also working on some improvements on this front — stay tuned.

Simon

[Graham Ballantyne]

My dev VM is usually in production mode; I'll just bounce apache when I need to make a ruby change. 

[Jose Bedon]

Hi guys,

thanks for answering, i'm trying to modify handlebars files, specifically "app/views/jst/conferences/*.handlebars" , i tried to restart canvas too.

[elzbie...@gmail.com]

Have you solved this issue? I am trying to achieve the same thing and nothing changes when i edit a .handlebars file.