729120 - Install node/lessc on bedrock dev server, or fix config value

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Infrastructure & Operations Graveyard :: WebOps: Other, task, P1)

Description

[James Long (:jlongster)]

Ideally, we should install node and the LESS CSS compiler on the bedrock dev site. That way we don't have to generate the css every time we push to the dev site.

Is this possible? Is it already installed?

If so, please add the following settings to the dev's local settings:

LESS_PREPROCESS = True
LESS_BIN = '/path/to/lessc'

The bin path should be the right path to lessc.

If it's not installed and we can't do that right now, please make sure that "LESS_PREPROCESS = False" in the settings. The dev server seems to be trying to run LESS and is erroring.

Comment 1

[James Long (:jlongster)]

We need to fix the dev site today, and I don't mind if we just turn off the LESS_PREPROCESS setting so that we can just run compress_assets ourselves to commit the CSS. We can do that if it will take a while to install node.

Comment 2

[John Slater]

Just chiming in here to note that this is a dependency for the MWC conference in a few days.

Comment 3

[James Long (:jlongster)]

Sorry for the blocker! QA needs to qa it tomorrow and it will be pushed right after this.

Comment 4

[Jake Maul [:jakem]]

Looks like we already have this packaged. I've added it to puppet for the bedrock admin node, and it should be installed momentarily (the emails will stop when it's in place).

Comment 5

[James Long (:jlongster)]

It's working now, thanks!

A curious is thing is that I tried to run `./manage.py compress_assets` locally and I hit a weird bug in YUICompressor. If that's working on the bedrock sites, I guess it's using Uglify? (UGLIFY_BIN would be set)

Comment 6

[James Long (:jlongster)]

Dang bugzilla