FAQ

This document serves to answer some common questions about the project.

How do I get started?

1. It is recommended to read over the Introduction document. This goes over the basics of the project, and the subsections of this documentation also go in-depth about it.

2. Ask the webmaster for a Basecamp invite. This is what is primarily used to triage and work on the project as a team.

3. If you have any questions, put them down either in the respective Basecamp projects, or in the ucmacm-website channel.

How do I contribute?

Please read the contributing document. This document goes over the basics of how to contribute and the suggested guidelines to follow.

I can't get the database to connect with Kanae!

This is most likely due to an incorrect URI connection string being provided. A different quirk with the PostgreSQL docker images is that the user by default, which that user is the root postgres user. In short, this means that you would need to adjust your connection URI to the one below. Make sure to change out the password for a password of your own.

postgresql://postgres:password@localhost:5432/kanae

warning

You need to make sure that the password that is set in the environment variable DB_PASSWORD (found inside docker/.env) is the exact same one specified within your connection URI string.

For example:

The environment variable (within docker/.env):

DB_PASSWORD=mysecretpassword

Within server/config.yml

postgres_uri: "postgresql://postgres:mysecretpassword@localhost:5432/kanae"