Configuration is controlled through a file called .env in the base directory. This jives with how Heroku manages configuration variables; everything in .env is just an environment variable if you really want to manage things yourself, but using Heroku tools makes sure you run like things do in production.

First, get Heroku toolbelt (https://toolbelt.heroku.com/).

Then, copy .env.example to .env. If all you want to do is run Pyret code and test out the REPL, you only need to edit a few variables. If you want to use the standalone pyret that comes with the checkout, use these settings:

USE_STANDALONE_PYRET="true"
PYRET_RELEASE_BASE="/js"
CURRENT_PYRET_RELEASE=""

Then you can run

$ git submodule init
$ git submodule update
$ foreman run npm install

and the dependencies will be installed.

Note that if you just run npm install, environment variables will not be set correctly when building templated HTML. You can accomplish the same thing as foreman run by setting the environment variables in .env via your environments' mechanisms for doing so. foreman just happens to also be useful for starting the server the same way Heroku does, etc.

To run the server, run:

$ foreman start

The editor will be served from http://localhost:5000/editor.

If you edit JavaScript or HTML files in src/web, run

$ foreman run make web

and then refresh the page.

The special gdrive-js import form:

import gdrive-js("stuff.arr", "0B32bNEogmncOdUZkTmZ5dVJsNGs") as S

is only allowed to work with a statically-configured set of accounts. These are configured via the OK_GOOGLE_IDS config variable, encoded as a JSON string mapping ids to email addresses. The email addresses are purely documentary. The 12-digit ID is unique to each Google account, and it is the first 12 digits of any share URL made by a user. If you want to add a user to your deployment as gdrive-js capable, just ask them for a share link and get those digits.

(NOTE(joe Jan 2015): There isn't documentation indicating that this is a stable way to do this, so this is an interim note. We may need a more complicated identity-checking mechanism, but this is super-simple and easier to change/rip out if necessary.)

If you'd like to run with a development copy of Pyret, you can change the environment configuration to:

USE_STANDALONE_PYRET="false"
PYRET_RELEASE_BASE="<url-to-your-pyret-checkout>/build"
CURRENT_PYRET_RELEASE=""

So for example, if your Pyret checkout is in /home/joe/src/pyret, you would use:

PYRET_RELEASE_BASE="file:///home/joe/src/pyret/build"

Or if you were runnning it on another web server, hosted at /pyret:

PYRET_RELEASE_BASE="http://your-server/pyret/build"

@jpolitz often runs with:

USE_STANDALONE_PYRET="false"
PYRET_RELEASE_BASE="http://localhost:8000/build"
CURRENT_PYRET_RELEASE=""

And then, from a checkout of pyret-lang, runs

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

In order to have share links, saving, and other docs-related functionality work, you need to add to your .env a Google client secret and client ID. You can easily make a free one for development at https://console.developers.google.com/project. At that page, make a project, then go through

APIs & Auth -> Credentials -> Create New Client Id

You should set the javascript origins to http://localhost:5000 and the redirect URI to http://localhost:5000/oauth2callback. Then copy .env.example to .env, and populate the GOOGLE_CLIENT_ID and GOOGLE_CLIENT_SECRET fields from your dashboard at Google.

If you are doing development on code.pyret.org, it can be useful to run it on a remote server (for sharing purposes, etc.). Heroku allows us to do this easily.

Make sure you have cloned the code.pyret.org git repository. Then follow the instructions to get it running locally.

The Heroku getting started guide is helpful, but it will be easier if you set things up in the order below https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/getting-started-with-nodejs

1. Make an account at http://heroku.com/ and from a terminal run heroku login
2. Navigate to your local code.pyret.org repository in a terminal.
3. Run heroku create <appname>. This will create an app on Heroku linked to your local repository.
4. Set the config variables found in .env (or .env.example) on Heroku. You can enter them using heroku config:set NAME1=VALUE1 NAME2=VALUE2 or in the online control panel.
5. Add a Redis Cloud database using heroku addons:add rediscloud or at addons.heroku.com. You will likely have to verify first (enter a credit card), but you shouldn’t actually be charged for the most basic level (but check for yourself!).
6. Now, still in your code.pyret.org repo, run

 $ git push heroku <localbranch>:master
 $ heroku ps:scale web=1

7. Now run heroku open or visit appname.herokuapp.com.