On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 10:08 PM Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: > > On 4/24/2020 12:42 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: > ... > > But what you can do is develop, and test, CGI scripts. If you get > > something interesting working, submit a pull request so that we can > > take a look at it. > > > > Have fun! > > For optimum fun I would like an environment in which I can play freely, > with no worries about corrupting production files. > > There seem to me to be two strategies for getting that. One is to create > a simple playpen of my own, with an svn repository and some other toys. > The other is a create a fully local Whimsy test environment. That has > the advantage that I can play with relevant libraries, as well as basics > of Ruby and CGI. > > What do you think?
That partially depends on what you plan to work on. If it is a mostly standalone tool that interacts with SVN, I would suggest the full local Whimsy environment, just don't implement the "svn commit" part yet. If it is the board agenda tool, I'd suggest taking a look at the node.js implementation. By the next board meeting, I'll have a video walkthrough. If it is something that updates LDAP, I don't think you will get very far without the existing libraries, so again I would suggest the full Whimsy environment. But given that you aren't "root" or in the secretarial team, the damage you can do there is very limited. > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > https://www.avg.com - Sam Ruby
