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Q&A What does this failure involving mysql on Mac mean?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 12mo ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A How does a newcomer to Ruby get oriented in the qpixel code?

This is assuming that you're new to Ruby and Rails (and the MVC design pattern that comes with it), but you have programming experience. First, some orientation: Ruby is the programming language...

posted 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A How can I remove a category from a community?

To delete anything that cannot be deleted through the interface (if you really want it gone), I would recommend doing it in the rails console. Rails has support to indicate what to do with associat...

posted 3y ago by Taeir‭

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Q&A How to solve Redis::CannotConnectError: Error connecting to Redis on 127.0.0.1:6379?

Likely Redis server is not running. Start with sudo systemctl start redis-server.service or with sudo service redis-server start or with redis-server. Check with redis-cli and inserting "ping" in ...

posted 3y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A How to solve Lost connection to MySQL server at 'reading initial communication packet', system error: 0

You forgot to turn on mysql. sudo systemctl enable mysql systemctl doesn't work for every distro. If your system doesn't have systemctl then, you have to use service sudo service mysql enable ...

posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 4y ago by deleted user

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Q&A How does a newcomer to Ruby get oriented in the qpixel code?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Desired state of code documentation

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A How to solve Gem::Ext::BuildError: ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

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;...

2 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by Gate_sprit‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A How to set up a Production environment

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 ...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by hdmm‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Taeir‭

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Q&A How to test CoDesign?

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, ...

3 answers  ·  posted 4y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 3y ago by deleted user

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Q&A Mysql return error Unknown collation: 'utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci' when run rails db:schema:load

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Yaskur‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Can not create a new post on fresh installation

You've missed a step: you need to make sure each category is associated with a tag set. There's a full setup guide here that you can follow. For the easy fix, from each category's page, click Edit ...

posted 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Can not create a new post on fresh installation

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_...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Yaskur‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A What user-facing things aren't covered well by automated tests (and should be tested manually)?

The really core features (posting, voting, commenting, editing) are pretty thoroughly tested; we only really need to test those exhaustively by hand if we're making significant changes to them - ot...

posted 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A How to solve ActionView::Template::Error: Database missing time zone support for Etc/UTC in ReportsControllerTest

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Is there a QPixel development roadmap somewhere or can we have one?

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...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A mysql return error `ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: Mysql2::Error: Cannot drop table 'abilities' referenced by a foreign key constraint 'fk_rails_de15a6ad96' on table 'user_abilities'.: DROP TABLE IF EXISTS abilities`

You've already got a database there that you're trying to overwrite. As long as it hasn't got anything in it that you want, do a drop database qpixel_dev and drop database qpixel_test, then re-run ...

posted 4y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A How to solve Redis::CannotConnectError: Error connecting to Redis on 127.0.0.1:6379?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A How to circumvent Stripe::AuthenticationError: No API key provided

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 "...

3 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Is there a QPixel development roadmap somewhere or can we have one?

This is a great idea, thank you! We've been kind of keeping it in piecemeal notes and in people's heads and stuff, and that is not a path of clarity and growth. I'm planning to work on putting to...

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How does caching work in qpixel? Where are the entry points?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A How does help get propagated, both seeds and updates? (What do doc maintainers need to know?)

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by luap42‭

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Q&A What user-facing things aren't covered well by automated tests (and should be tested manually)?

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A How to solve ActionView::Template::Error: Database missing time zone support for Etc/UTC in ReportsControllerTest

Your MySQL installation is missing timezone support for the groupdate gem that we use. Run the following: mysql_tzinfo_to_sql /usr/share/zoneinfo | sudo mysql -u root mysql and you should be g...

posted 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Trilarion‭

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Q&A Why have I been blocked by cloudflare while posting and how can I circumvent it?

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Trilarion‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Trilarion‭

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