Tahrir is Arabic for Liberation.
Tahrir is also a Pyramid app for issuing your own Open Badges.
The name is total overkill.
You can see Tahrir deployed in production here. The staging instance lives here.
(On the side, if you have ideas for new Fedora badges, you can file them on this trac instance.)
The development team hangs out in #fedora-apps
on freenode. Join and ask
if you have any questions!
You can always:
$ pip install tahrir
It's packaged for Fedora and epel6. The authors use an Ansible playbook to deploy Tahrir in production.
You can find our repo here, our playbook here, and our tahrir role here.
Get a sample configuration file:
$ wget https://raw.github.com/fedora-infra/tahrir/master/production.ini -O tahrir.ini
Edit it to your liking. In particular you will need to change the
following values under the [server:main]
section:
host
= yoursite.comport
= 80
And the following values under the [app:pyramid]
section:
tahrir.admin
= "comma-delimited list of admin email addresses"tahrir.title
= "just badgin' around"tahrir.pngs.uri
= /home/user/badges/pngstahrir.base_url
= "yoursite.com"
Run the following command before starting the server:
$ initialize_tahrir_db tahrir.ini
Start the server like so (subsitute tahrir.ini
with the .ini
file
you want to use:
$ pserve tahrir.ini
You can pass the --reload
flag to this command to automatically restart
the server in the event that the code is altered.
If you find bugs in Tahrir or have ideas for enhancements, please report them at https://github.com/fedora-infra/tahrir/issues.
If you'd like to contribute to Tahrir or just poke at the code, you can use the following instructions to set up a development environment.
Create an account on Fedora Account Systems (FAS) at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/accounts. Make sure you have Python 2.7 or above installed on your system. Then, install the Python version of virtualenvwrapper (in Fedora):
$ sudo dnf -y install python-virtualenvwrapper
In Ubuntu, you can do the same with:
$ sudo apt-get install python-setuptools $ sudo apt-get install python-virtualenv $ sudo easy-install pip $ sudo pip install python-virtualenvwrapper
After installing virtualenvwrapper, you'll need to set it up for the first time:
$ export WORKON_HOME=~/.virtualenvs/ $ mkdir -p $WORKON_HOME $ source /usr/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
You'll want to add source /usr/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh
to
your .bashrc
.
Then, to set up Tahrir, follow these steps:
$ git clone git://github.com/fedora-infra/tahrir.git $ cd tahrir $ mkvirtualenv tahrir (tahrir)$ python setup.py develop (tahrir)$ cp development.ini.example development.ini (tahrir)$ cp secret.ini.example secret.ini (tahrir)$ initialize_tahrir_db development.ini (tahrir)$ pserve --reload development.ini
The pserve command should output "starting HTTP server on
https://localhost:8000". Login to https://localhost:8000 in your web browser
using your FAS account username and password. In order to make
yourself an admin of the local copy of tahrir, edit the development.ini
file
and append [email protected]
to the tahrir.admin
option.
When you login, you should now be able to see the admin view of tahrir in your
local copy at http://localhost:8000/admin.
For problems like:
c:\env\tahrir>c:\env\Scripts\initialize_tahrir_db development.ini Error: pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: simplejson
and:
c:\env\tahrir>c:\env\Scripts\easy_install simplejson Error: raise ValueError(str(list(result.keys()))) ValueError: [u'path']
Follow these instructions:
Download and install mingw from http://code.google.com/p/mingw-builds/downloads/detail?name=i686-mingw32-gcc-4.7.0-release-c,c%2b%2b,fortran-sjlj.zip&can=2&q= Extract the contents of this folder to
c:\mingw
.Download and install setuptools if not already present. This can be done by running ez_setup.py from c:Python2x.
Create a configuration file for distutils i.e. create a file distutils.cfg at the following location:
C:\Python2x\Lib\distutils\distutils.cfg
Add the following line to it:
[build] compiler=mingw32
Now open command prompt and use easy_install to install simplejson:
C:\env\tahrir>c:\env\Scripts\easy_install simplejson
This will install simplejson in Python2xLibsite-packages. A few other
packages -- namely httplib2 -- may have to be installed the same way before the
initialize_tahrir_db
command can be executed.