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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...

0 answers  ·  posted 3mo ago by Arnaud‭

Hidden helper functions There are additional helper functions defined that can be used from the view files. These can be found in a separate helpers directory. In this particular case, the expanda...

posted 11mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by trichoplax‭

Pages that are "in" a category show the category bar at the top, like this: An individual suggested edit should logically be "in" a category too, but isn't shown that way: I'm trying to figur...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by trichoplax‭

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

Not a complete answer (I'm not fluent in SSO), but the developer who implemented SSO created this wiki page about setup. We had failed to incorporate that into our installation doc -- now linked f...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by anurag3221@‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

As of this commit, there is a new environment variable, MAILER_PROTOCOL, that accepts values of http or https. The default is https, but you can set this to http in a development environment to av...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

Since you mention setting this up on your local machine, I assume this is a development environment, intended for your own testing (so the new user you are creating is still controlled by you on yo...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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 ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by anurag3221@‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by trichoplax‭

You can add a new route in the file config/routes.rb, and the existing routes in that file for the other "tabs" on the user profile page show the template to follow. The relevant part of the route...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by trichoplax‭

I was thinking about taking a try at an issue that would add a new sub-page to the user profile. I understand that as part of this I need to add a "route" for the new URL and somehow wire that up ...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by trichoplax‭

It looks like you are using a database user root. I suspect this is at least part of the problem, so I recommend fixing it first. If you look in the QPixel repository at the file config/database.y...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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.

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by hdmm‭

As this answer says, db:seed isn't the right tool here. Short of dropping the entire database as suggested in that answer, you can delete individual flags in the database. From the mysql console,...

posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

This is the difference between refreshing the database and seeding the database. db:seed does what it says on the tin - seeds the database. That means it adds pre-defined data to the database. It ...

posted 1y ago by ArtOfCode‭

In my dev environment I'm editing the flags in db/seeds/post_flag_types.yml. After editing I run rails db:seed, which adds my new flag. Fine so far. However, I had a typo in the name, so I edite...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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. ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

The function comment_thread_path is created automatically by Rails, based on the information provided in config/routes.rb. See Rails Routing from the Outside In for further details. Specifically,...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

I want to find the place in the codebase where a path is defined, but searching for the function that creates it gives no results apart from the usage of that function. For example, see thread.htm...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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..

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Sandman‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Andreas‭

I'm trying to get QPixel working, but I'm stuck at SSO. I'm using Microsoft Entra ID as IDP. Every time I try to login, I get this error: No route matches [POST] "/users/saml/auth"

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Sandman‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Andreas‭

Assuming you set it to production mode in the documentation, I think it's mostly fine. As far as I know the following features don't work in the docker setup: Redis data is not stored outside of...

posted 2y ago by Taeir‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Taeir‭

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...

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

I believe that rvm has a mechanism where it will automatically switch to the correct ruby version based on the lockfile. So if the lockfile of an application were to say: ruby '3.1', rvm will dete...

posted 2y ago by Taeir‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Taeir‭