Setting Up Developer Environment for ManageIQ on Windows OS

[Dhamo1107]

Hi everyone,

I'm looking to set up a ManageIQ development environment on my Windows machine with Rubymine IDE. I have a few questions:

Is it possible to set up the environment on Windows OS?

1. Using Docker:
   Can I use Docker for the setup?
   Any recommended Docker images or configurations?

2. Cloning Repositories Directly:
   Is it feasible to clone the repositories directly and set up without Docker?
   Any specific instructions or potential issues to be aware of?

Any advice or resources would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Fryguy]

Hi @Dhamo1107 ... welcome!

We had Windows developers years ago, but haven't in a long time. I don't recall us adding anything specific that would break a Windows setup, but I'm not really sure. Are you planning to run under WSL or directly in Windows?

Can I use Docker for the setup?

I think there were a few developers who've used Docker for the various dependencies like PostgreSQL, memcached and Kafka with some success, but i'm not sure on the specific images.

Is it feasible to clone the repositories directly and set up without Docker?

This is what I do, but I'm on a Mac. I don't see why this couldn't be possible.

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If you run into any problems, or specifics to a Windows setup, please feel free to open PRs to the developer setup guide, or if there are bugs with the Windows setup, please open them in our issues tracker.

[Fryguy]

You're hitting https://github.com/ManageIQ/manageiq/blob/master/lib/vmdb/loggers.rb#L106-L107, but we're definitely requiring awesome_spawn right before it. I wonder if awesome_spawn just doesn't require properly on Windows? Can you try the following:

$ irb
> require 'awesome_spawn'

[Dhamo1107]

I got true for that,

PS C:\Users\DHAMODHARAN S\manageiq\plugins\manageiq-ui-classic> irb
irb(main):001> require 'awesome_spawn'
=> true

[Fryguy]

@Dhamo1107 Instead of running the rails server directly, can you try bin/setup (or if you've already run bin/setup, then bin/update)?

[Fryguy]

Oh, with regard to your commented out gems, manageiq-style isn't really necessary, so that's fine. Also, removing plugins for providesr is fine. However, removing manageiq-messaging might present a problem.

If you are not able to require/install manageiq-messaging manually (without ManageIQ), then please open issues in the manageiq-messaging repository

[jrafanie]

@Dhamo1107 did @Fryguy's comments help you get further?

[Dhamo1107]

@jrafanie There is an issue with rdkafka library in windows and not able to fix it