Setting up codecombat on windows

README.md

services version on my 64bit system:

• node v0.10.22
• ruby v2.0.0.p533
• mongodb v2.5.4

Requirements:

• nodejs, rubyv2.0.0, mongodbv2.5.4

Steps :

• git clone https://github.com/codecombat/codecombat
• npm install -g bower brunch nodemon
• cd codecombat/
• npm install
• bower install
• sass-brunch v1.7.2 breaks in windows due to windows socket close error fix, so delete sass-brunch from node_modules dir and do the following inside codecombat/node_modules :
  • npm i --save-dev sass-brunch@1.7.0
• brunch w //if any compilation error throws up on sass files just update your sass gem and that should do

Setting up mongodb:

• extract mongodb into a folder and add the path to bin folder inside mongodb folder to your system path
• create a db folder anywhere ex: C:/db
• mongod --setParameter textSearchEnabled=true --dbpath path/to/db folder we created in earlier step
• download database dump from https://s3.amazonaws.com/uploads.hipchat.com/60497/416620/DyI9sxIrTmiR6ms/coco_backup_public.tar.gz and extract it to db/ folder inside codecombat/ folder
• cd codecombat/db
• mongorestore dump

Finally :

• nodemon -w server -w server_config.js
• visit http://localhost:3000

I get an error when restoring the dumps (mongorestore dump). Says Error creating index coco.articles:16730 err: "bad textIndexVersion: 2". Any tips?

@Secretmapper are u using mongodb v2.5.4 ?

I had the same issue, but I realized that I downloaded the latest stable release of mongodb rather than v2.5.4. Everything works now. Thanks, deepak.

Ok got it working thanks to this guide! Weird thing is that doesn't in chrome, opera and firefox he keeps saying that this game wont work on Internet Explorer 9. I can still press play and such, but the CSS is fucked on every page.

Edit: and it also doesn't work in internet explorer 11. So in all my 4 browsers the CSS is fucked for this local version. any clue how I can fix this?

@GlenDC did the sass compilation step ran successfully ?

@deepak1556 thank you for the assistance :) I must have done something wrong during one of the steps .

We've renamed brunch.coffee to config.coffee in the main repo now, so that step should no longer be needed.

Still having the f..d CSS / IE9 issue. What should I check?

Works now just by keeping the dev environment up to date. Thanks for updating the description. It's much better than the "official" one. Going to improve this there ...

i cant understand the last step plz help me