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Installing QPixel on Fedora Linux using RVM without brew If you happen to be installing in this situation, a few things might have different names. Here are some of the differences I had to allow ...

posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 7mo ago by trichoplax‭

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by ArtOfCode‭

The front page is less cluttered without "Question" With Q&A containing both questions and wiki posts, every question is labelled "Question", like this: If Wiki were a separate Category the...

posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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 ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭

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...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 2y 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

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

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 11mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by trichoplax‭

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 10mo ago by trichoplax‭

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 5mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 5mo ago by trichoplax‭

When creating a new post in the Q&A Category, I'm asked whether I want to create a question or a wiki article. Are these both stored in the Q&A Category for historical reasons, perhaps due ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 2y 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 11mo ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by trichoplax‭