blog-ng Application

blog-ng is a very simple, basic blog app using Helma NG in a somewhat "Rails-ish" way and Hibernate as its ORM/persistence layer.

How to Run the App

1. Start your MySQL server and create the DBs (dev & test) + user with:

   blog-ng/build/init.mysql.sql

2. Optional: put the jars (needed to make feeds work) which are located in blog-ng/build/extra into helma-ng/lib/ext.

3. Issue, e.g., the following command inside the blog-ng directory:

   blog-ng> ./startApp.js

   Given you installed the Helma NG Debian package on your system.

   Otherwise, e.g.:

   blog-ng> java -jar run.jar ../helma-ng/run.jar startApp.js

4. Then point your browser to:

   http://localhost:8080/

How to Run the Unit Tests

1. You need the test DB to be setup (see above).

2. blog-ng> ./execTests.js

   Resp., e.g.:

   blog-ng> java -jar run.jar ../helma-ng/execTests.js

How to Rebuild the DB Schema

1. You need the dev DB to be setup (see above).

2. blog-ng> ./rebuildDb.js

   Resp., e.g.:

   blog-ng> java -jar run.jar ../helma-ng/rebuildDb.js

Note: Keep in mind that this will delete any data stored in the DB.

Dependencies

• MySQL (5.0+): http://dev.mysql.com/