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The QPixel repository on GitHub contains the source code for the Codidact software. How can I set up a new development instance of it, so that I can work on it on my local machine?
Welcome to Codidact Collab! This is a special community outside the general Codidact network. Unlike the other topical communities, this one is for questions about the Codidact engine (QPixel) its...
I always thought that the terms "Codidact" and "QPixel" refer to the same beast until I came across this post in the chat stating: [..] Should we use qpixel (quicker launch, less dev work to do)...
QPixel's Docker documentation says that the Docker setup is intended for development environments, not production. The documentation calls out one specific issue: email doesn't work. Are there ot...
I want to change all the text in the qpixel to my local language(s). But unfortunately, most of the text is in the code(maybe it called hard code). It's hard to find the text to change it. But I se...
When I tried to install QPixel with bundle install I got the following message (on Debian 11): ~/qpixel$ bundle install Bundler 2.3.15 is running, but your lockfile was generated with 2.4.13. Ins...
If I have my "own instance of the Codidact software (QPixel) locally, on a server" (cited from here), can I easily migrate the overall database (user accounts, Q&A, etc.) to a Stack Overflow fo...
I would like to be able to work with qpixel in a development environment so I could (try to) fix small bugs and build and test locally. I don't have a developer setup now and my OS is apparently t...
I tried to install on my free GCP VM compute but when run rails db:schema:load return error: -- create_table("abilities", {:options=>"ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_09...
I'm running qpixel on my local and followed instruction on README. After signed up and try to create a new post it's return error : ActiveRecord::NotNullViolation: Mysql2::Error: Field 'tag_set_...
If I make any changes to CoDesign. Then, I have to test what changes I made. Is there possible way to build local server (http://localhost/)? To test while making changes.. I have run npm install, ...
I'm trying to install the Q&A platform using : CREATE USER root@bimberspot IDENTIFIED BY '.....'; GRANT ALL ON qpixel_dev.* TO root@bimberspot; GRANT ALL ON qpixel_test.* TO root@bimberspot;...
How to set up a Production environment We got QPixel to work on localhost but we are struggling to get it working "online". Could someone point us in the right direction? What steps are necessary ...
Was having a look at the QPixel code base and comments in code seem to be relatively scarce. It might be that documentation about the code is stored somewhere else with Ruby or that the general lev...
I am new to Ruby (and Rails) and have just (finally) succeeded in setting up qpixel on my Mac. I headed over to our easy GitHub issues looking for something to use to get started, and then realize...
After ruby (version 3.1.2) install with RVM, when I move to the qpixel install directory (with cd qpixel command), the following warning is displayed in the terminal: Unknown ruby interpreter ve...
How do I migrate/import data from Stack Overflow for Teams to a custom instance of QPixel? I have a few JSON files that I need to migrate/import to QPixel, e.g. users, posts, comments etc..
I’m a learner exploring Q&A tools, and after researching, I came across Codidact. I’m impressed with its features and have successfully set it up on my local machine. However, I encountered an ...
I had to reinstall mysql on my Mac, and after some thrashing I was able to again connect to my Qpixel database from the command line. The data is as expected, so it appears that mysql itself is ok...
Does anyone have experience and tips migrating to Valkey? The reason I ask is becuase Redis changed their license in the beginning of 2024 and is now closed source.
I have successfully set up QPixel on my local machine, but any attempt to use the "Search" function fails with "Your search syntax is incorrect.". I found out that this is caused by an exception i...
I followed the instructions to set up Docker on my developer machine and it works great. Sometimes, though, I run into problems after I've pulled updates or switched branches. I don't really unde...
I have successfully set up QPixel on my local machine. However, I encountered an issue with user authentication — when registering a new user, the SSO authentication doesn’t work as expected. I’ve ...
I was trying to fix what I thought was an easy bug: suggested edits can add restricted tags (the ones only moderators can apply), which creates a suggested edit that most reviewers can't approve. ...
We have automated tests (good). Automated tests usually don't cover everything, so when there's a new version we want to test (say, on the dev server), I'd like to be able to prioritize things tha...
How to remove the following red message (see also the picture below) displayed on the top of each pages when running a local instance of QPixel? This site is in development mode! In additio...
I know this is buried in Discord somewhere, but for better findability: There is a seeds script (where?) that takes new help topics and propagates them to communities on a network. Where do those...
I'm trying to understand the root cause of a bug, HTML meta tag for description is not question specific. On any individual question page, instead of showing an excerpt of the question and top ans...
Caching is really important for scaling. I know we cache some data -- something about tags (tags for a post?) has been discussed on meta, and I know the "new posts" silver dot (badge) is cached so...
When running rails db:seed I get some errors without any further explanation. CloseReason: Created 0, skipped 5 User: Created 0, skipped 1 PostFlagType: Created 0, skipped 4 PostType: Created 0...
This is more a meta issue, but while posting an error report (with a screenshot and lengthy (but still not too long so the post could be send) error log) here, I was not able to successfully post t...
I ran tests (bin/rails test) and got Error: ReportsControllerTest#test_every_route_should_work_for_moderators: ActionView::Template::Error: Database missing time zone support for Etc/UTC - see h...
I want to setup a local QPixel instance (WSL - Ubuntu 20.04) and am following the guide by luap42. Finally I get an error Stripe::AuthenticationError: No API key provided. Set your API key using "...
I tried to setup a local QPixel instance (WSL - Ubuntu 20.04) and followed the guide by luap42. I finally run rails -s and got /var/lib/gems/2.7.0/gems/fileutils-1.6.0/lib/fileutils.rb:105: warni...
One user gave feedback that he/she would be interested in seeing some kind of roadmap for the development (of Codidact). One aspect of that would surely be a development roadmap of QPixel. I know t...
I followed the instructions here, but even after running rails db:seed, there aren't any categories. Console: moshi@Alpha:~/qpixel$ rails db:create Running via Spring preloader in process 11391 ...
What is a "Category" in QPixel? Does this allow you to create something equivalent to a Site Proposal in Codidact Community Proposals or is it something else?
After cloning qpixel (yesterday), I can't post anything. I was trying to setup database properly. rails db:create database already exists rails db:schema:load -- create_table("abiliti...
Codidact has a guide to installing Co-Design. The section "Using a pre-built version" recommends using a CDN. I notice that the CDN recommended in the guide is different to the CDN used in the Cod...
How to solve Can't connect to MySQL server on 'bimberspot.com:3306' (111)
As instructed in the "Create administrator account" section of the QPixel Installation guide I created a second new user through the user interface (clicking "Sign Up") in my local development inst...
422 unprocessable error We followed the installation instructions and have a QPixel standalone instance with seems to be working. However we are not able to create the first account. The sign-up p...
In QPixel, under db/seeds/posts, there are a number of HTML files which are starting points for various help guides and documents such as Terms of Service and Code of Conduct. These can be edited ...
When writing front end code for QPixel, is there a preferred way to check whether the user is signed in? The back end code has access to this information, and constructs the page accordingly. Some...
Does having Codidact Collab under codidact.org rather than under codidact.com with the other communities cause an additional administrative burden, for example when releasing code changes? Would t...
I saw this report about a bug in an error message and figured that would be an easy fix. The incorrect error message is: "Tags can't have more than 5 tags". That should be "Posts can't have...". ...
I ran tests (bin/rails test) and got Error: AdvertisementControllerTest#test_image_paths_should_return_png: Magick::ImageMagickError: no decode delegate for this image format `' @ error/constitu...
The Co-Design homepage shows the various elements of Co-Design very nicely and explains the usage. From my experience with other CSS frameworks like Bootstrap or Bulma, it's quite on par feature wi...
The contributing guidelines are probably copied from the previous "core" project. They even link to there while mentioning code standards and commit guidelines. I wanted to update those, but could...
On page /categories it's easy to create or edit a category, but I cannot find a way to delete a category again. Is the functionality not existing? Following the setup guide my user is a global adm...
