#Slack - Deploys - Reviews

##SetUp Laravel will end up being easy to setup if you set up Homestead below first. Laravel requires composer and unless you have all the needed php librarys locally it will throw an error, so usually I will run all composer commands from the VM

After pulling down the lastest from it you should SSH into the box and install composer

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php

once installed run composer update inside the code's root directory that should install the rest of the dependencies for you.

Laravel uses .env.php files for configuration I have placed a sample file in the repo but a first step is to create your .env.local.php file with the following

<?php
    return array(
        'DB_USER' => '',
        'DB_PASSWORD' => '',
        'deployChannel' => '',
        'reviewChannel' => '',
        'slackEndPoint' => ''
    );

filling in the data based on your setup deployChannel and reviewChannel should be a PRIVATE channel that you create and invite the devcodedad into to test. For example mine is #testCodeDadPat

This will allow you to test slack group messages without spamming the group.

The slackend point is =https://hooks.slack.com/services/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 for CodeDad

Once this is all completed from the command in the root directory run the following command

php artisan migrate

This will rake the migrations files and get your database up to date.

At this point you should be up and running. A quick way to test is to try the url http://homestead.app/reviews/list and see if anything comes up.

##Code Overview I followed pretty strict Laravel patterns so

Routes are defined in app/routes.php and are broken down into two groups reviews and deploys. Follow the pattern to add any new group or endpoint.

Controllers are located in app/controllers and should remain pretty skinny. The Flow of control is controller -> service -> repository -> model(ORM).

##Local Enviroment Setup - Homestead

###Installing VirtualBox & Vagrant

Once VirtualBox and Vagrant have been installed, you should add the laravel/homestead box to your Vagrant installation using the following command in your terminal. It will take a few minutes to download the box, depending on your Internet connection speed:

vagrant box add laravel/homestead

If this fails, you may have an older version of vagrant that requires the url of the box. The following should work:

vagrant box add laravel/homestead https://atlas.hashicorp.com/laravel/boxes/homestead

###Installing Homestead

###With Composer + PHP Tool

Once the box has been added to your Vagrant installation, you are ready to install the Homestead CLI tool using the Composer global command:

composer global require "laravel/homestead=~2.0"

Make sure to place the ~/.composer/vendor/bin directory in your PATH so the homestead executable is found when you run the homestead command in your terminal.

Once you have installed the Homestead CLI tool, run the init command to create the Homestead.yaml configuration file:

homestead init

The Homestead.yaml file will be placed in the ~/.homestead directory. If you're using a Mac or Linux system, you may edit Homestead.yaml file by running the homestead edit command in your terminal:

homestead edit

###Manually Via Git (No Local PHP)

Alternatively, if you do not want to install PHP on your local machine, you may install Homestead manually by simply cloning the repository. Consider cloning the repository into a central Homestead directory where you keep all of your Laravel projects, as the Homestead box will serve as the host to all of your Laravel (and PHP) projects:

git clone https://github.com/laravel/homestead.git Homestead

Once you have installed the Homestead CLI tool, run the bash init.sh command to create the Homestead.yaml configuration file:

bash init.sh

The Homestead.yaml file will be placed in the ~/.homestead directory.

###Set Your SSH Key

Next, you should edit the Homestead.yaml file. In this file, you can configure the path to your public SSH key, as well as the folders you wish to be shared between your main machine and the Homestead virtual machine.

Don't have an SSH key? On Mac and Linux, you can generally create an SSH key pair using the following command:

ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "you@homestead"

Once you have created a SSH key, specify the key's path in the authorize property of your Homestead.yaml file.

##Configure Your Shared Folders

The folders property of the Homestead.yaml file lists all of the folders you wish to share with your Homestead environment. As files within these folders are changed, they will be kept in sync between your local machine and the Homestead environment. You may configure as many shared folders as necessary!

###Configure Your Nginx Sites

Not familiar with Nginx? No problem. The sites property allows you to easily map a "domain" to a folder on your Homestead environment. A sample site configuration is included in the Homestead.yaml file. Again, you may add as many sites to your Homestead environment as necessary. Homestead can serve as a convenient, virtualized environment for every Laravel project you are working on!

You can make any Homestead site use HHVM by setting the hhvm option to true:

sites:
 - map: homestead.app
   to: /home/vagrant/Code/Laravel/public
   hhvm: true

###Bash Aliases

To add Bash aliases to your Homestead box, simply add to the aliases file in the root of the ~/.homestead directory.

###Launch The Vagrant Box

Once you have edited the Homestead.yaml to your liking, run the homestead up command in your terminal. If you installed Homestead manually and are not using the PHP homestead tool, run vagrant up from the directory that contains your cloned Homestead Git repository.

Vagrant will boot the virtual machine, and configure your shared folders and Nginx sites automatically! To destroy the machine, you may use the homestead destroy command. For a complete list of available Homestead commands, run homestead list.

Don't forget to add the "domains" for your Nginx sites to the hosts file on your machine! The hosts file will redirect your requests for the local domains into your Homestead environment. On Mac and Linux, this file is located at /etc/hosts. On Windows, it is located at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts. The lines you add to this file will look like the following:

192.168.10.10  homestead.app

Make sure the IP address listed is the one you set in your Homestead.yaml file. Once you have added the domain to your hosts file, you can access the site via your web browser!

http://homestead.app

##Sample Homstead.yaml file Here is my sample homestead file

ip: "192.168.10.10"
memory: 2048
cpus: 1
authorize: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
keys:
    - ~/.ssh/id_rsa
folders:
    - map: /Users/pcunningham/Projects/slackBot
        to: /home/vagrant/Code
sites:
    - map: homestead.app
        to: /home/vagrant/Code/public
databases:
    - homestead
variables:
    - key: APP_ENV
    value: local

##Daily Usage

###Connecting Via SSH

To connect to your Homestead environment via SSH, issue the homestead ssh command in your terminal.

###Connecting To Your Databases

A homestead database is configured for both MySQL and Postgres out of the box. For even more convenience, Laravel's local database configuration is set to use this database by default.

To connect to your MySQL or Postgres database from your main machine via Navicat or Sequel Pro, you should connect to 127.0.0.1 and port 33060 (MySQL) or 54320 (Postgres). The username and password for both databases is homestead / secret.