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## Install Prerequisites

1. Oracle JDK 8 (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html)
2. Node.js for npm (http://nodejs.org/)
3. Leiningen (http://leiningen.org/)


## Build

Install clojure + npm requirements with

When developing the frontend client, you'll want to watch for changes,
so run webpack with the '-w' flag.
    ./node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js -w
Note that changes to CSS variables will only be picked up when webpack is restarted.

## Usage

Then run the HTTP server with

    lein ring server


## Unit Tests / Linting

Check that the project can compile successfully with

    lein uberjar

Run the linters with

    lein eastwood                        # Clojure linters
    lein bikeshed --max-line-length 240
    ./lint_js.sh                         # JavaScript linter

Run unit tests with

    lein test

By default, the tests only run against the `generic-sql` dataset (an H2 test database).
You can run specify which datasets/drivers to run tests against with the env var `MB_TEST_DATASETS`:

    MB_TEST_DATASETS=generic-sql,mongo lein test

At the time of this writing, the valid datasets are `generic-sql` and `mongo`.

## Documentation

#### Instant Cheatsheet

Start up an instant cheatsheet for the project + dependencies by running

    lein instant-cheatsheet

#### Marginalia

Available at http://metabase.github.io/metabase-init/.

You can generate and view documentation with

    lein marg
    open ./docs/uberdoc.html

You can update the GitHub pages documentation using

    make dox

You should be on the `master` branch without any uncommited local changes before doing so. Also, make sure you've fetched the branch `gh-pages` and can push it back to `origin`.

## Bootstrapping (for Development)

To quickly get your dev environment set up, use the `bootstrap` function to create a new User and Organization.
Open a REPL in Emacs or with `lein repl` and enter the following:

```clojure
(use 'metabase.db)
(setup-db)
(use 'metabase.bootstrap)
(bootstrap)
```

You'll be walked through the steps to get started.

## API Client (for Development)

You can make API calls from the REPL using `metabase.http-client`:

```clojure
(use 'metabase.http-client)
(defn cl [& args]
  (-> (apply client {:email "crowberto@metabase.com", :password "squawk"} args)
      clojure.pprint/pprint))
(cl :get "user/current")
;; -> {:email "crowbetro@metabase.com",
;;     :first_name "Crowbero",
;;     :last_login #inst "2015-03-13T22:55:05.390000000-00:00",
;;     ...}
```

## Developing with Emacs

`.dir-locals.el` contains some Emacs Lisp that tells `clojure-mode` how to indent Metabase macros and which arguments are docstrings. Whenever this file is updated,
Emacs will ask you if the code is safe to load. You can answer `!` to save it as safe.

By default, Emacs will insert this code as a customization at the bottom of your `init.el`.
You'll probably want to tell Emacs to store customizations in a different file. Add the following to your `init.el`:

```emacs-lisp
(setq custom-file (concat user-emacs-directory ".custom.el")) ; tell Customize to save customizations to ~/.emacs.d/.custom.el
(ignore-errors                                                ; load customizations from ~/.emacs.d/.custom.el
  (load-file custom-file))
```

## Checking for Out-of-Date Dependencies

    lein ancient                   # list all out-of-date dependencies
    lein ancient latest lein-ring  # list latest version of artifact lein-ring

Will give you a list of out-of-date dependencies.

Once's this repo is made public, this Clojars badge will work and show the status as well:

[![Dependencies Status](http://jarkeeper.com/metabase/metabase-init/status.png)](http://jarkeeper.com/metabase/metabase-init)

# Contributing

In general, we like to have an open issue for every pull request as a place to discuss the nature of any bug or proposed improvement. Each pull request should address a single issue, and contain both the fix as well as a description of how the pull request and tests that validate that the PR fixes the issue in question.

For significant feature additions, it is expected that discussion will have taken place in the attached issue. Any feature that requires a major decision to be reached will need to have an explicit design document written. The goals of this document are to make explicit the assumptions, constraints and tradeoffs any given feature implementation will contain. The point is not to generate documentation but to allow discussion to reference a specific proposed design and to allow others to consider the implications of a given design.

We don't like getting sued, so for every commit we require a Linux Kernel style developer certificate. If you agree to the below terms (from http://developercertificate.org/)

```
Developer Certificate of Origin
Version 1.1

Copyright (C) 2004, 2006 The Linux Foundation and its contributors.
660 York Street, Suite 102,
San Francisco, CA 94110 USA

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.

Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1

By making a contribution to this project, I certify that:

(a) The contribution was created in whole or in part by me and I
    have the right to submit it under the open source license
    indicated in the file; or

(b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best
    of my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source
    license and I have the right under that license to submit that
    work with modifications, whether created in whole or in part
    by me, under the same open source license (unless I am
    permitted to submit under a different license), as indicated
    in the file; or

(c) The contribution was provided directly to me by some other
    person who certified (a), (b) or (c) and I have not modified
    it.

(d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution
    are public and that a record of the contribution (including all
    personal information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is
    maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with
    this project or the open source license(s) involved.
```

Then you just add a line to every git commit message:

    Signed-off-by: Helpful Contributor <helpful.contributor@email.com>

All contributions need to be signed with your real name.

## License

Copyright © 2015 Metabase, Inc

Distributed under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) except as otherwise noted.  See individual files for details.