This application defines global templates for GOV.UK pages.
- slimmer - Rack middleware for wrapping Rack applications in shared templated layouts
./startup.sh
This will start the server running on http://0.0.0.0:3013
If you'd like to run static locally, and keep all its asset links pointing to
the same local instance, you'll need to set PLEK_SERVICE_STATIC_URI, which is
the host used for static assets (even on static).
Otherwise it defaults to static.dev.gov.uk, which won't exist if you're
just running this repo locally, without the rest of the GOV.UK stack.
To run this app locally, and have it point at its own assets, run it like this:
PLEK_SERVICE_STATIC_URI=0.0.0.0:3013 ./startup.sh
If you're making front end changes to static and testing them out
on your development VM, you may find that it takes several minutes for changes to
appear due to caching in Slimmer. One approach to speed this up is to run all of the
relevant app's dependencies (including static), then start that app separately.
Restarting the app should pick up the changes.
For example, to see changes made to static templates which
are wrapped around feedback pages, run bowl feedback --without=feedback in one terminal and the .startup.sh script for feedback
in a separate terminal. Following local edits to static, restarting just
feedback should be sufficient.
If you repeatedly see 504 Gateway Timeout errors when developing with static in your
development VM it's possible to increase the proxy_read_timeout value in
/etc/nginx/sites-available/static.dev.gov.uk and restart nginx on the VM.
bundle exec rake runs the test suite.
Tests can run in browser at /specs
Or in terminal to run only the jasmine tests you can use RAILS_ENV=test bundle exec rake spec:javascript