[Seaside] What is the recommended setup to develop locally (on Mac OSX Lion) with Pharo and Seaside?

[John Toohey]

As Philippe mentioned, its very important that your production system
matches your development one. My current project involves Java
Servers, MQ Servers, Cache  Servers and Console Servers written in
Pharo/SeaSide. I develop mostly on OSX and deploy to Linux. Learning
the hard way, I finally came up with a system that allows me to
develop and deploy on *exactly* the same system, and allows me to
manage multiple projects, some dating back years.

I use Vagrant and VirtualBox to create Ubunti images on my laptop that
I use for development and then using the same scripts to deploy and
build production servers that match my local ones.

I wrote a short post about it here,
http://blog.meta-spaces.com/blog/2011/09/05/Vagrant/, but if you are
willing to spend a week building your own scripts, this approach will
pay itself back many times over. The script are all stored in a git
repo, so I can re-create any system whenever I need to.

I always server static files from nginx, and normally use Postgres as
my DB. Each of these servers runs in a VM, and are easily accessed
from Pharo. When I am working on something else, I simply spin them
down. For staging deployment, I use knife-solo on the same scripts,
and my servers are configured and deployed remotely (Normally EC2).

On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 14:06, Helene Bilbo
<thereluctantprogrammer at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> As long i was working without the possibility to upload files in my seaside
> application i just worked with the seaside one-click image. Now i wonder
> what is the best way to develop on a local machine when working with static
> files - when on the server where the application will run later it will run
> with apache like described in the book in chapter 22.3.
>
> 1) I read on the newsgroups that it is not recommended to work via RFB
> directly on the real server (where the application will run later).
> 2) Is the best option a local installation of apache? How do I configure it
> (on Mac OSX Lion)? Is it easy to migrate the application to the real server
> (where the application will run later) this way?
> 3) Is it a good option to let the Pharo/Comanche Server do the serving of
> static files while developing on the local machine? How do I configure it?
> What do I have to change when i start uploading the application to the real
> (where the application will run later) server?
>
> I know this has been asked on the newsgroups many times and there were many
> answers - but for a beginner like me with no prior experience in
> (web)developing thats the biggest obstacle up to now.. A small tutorial for
> this task would be very welcome on the seaside homepage or in the book.
>
> Best regards, Helene.
>
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