An on-line and in person real-time puzzle scavenger hunt!

Meteor 3 considerably modified the install process. The instructions here are brief because of that, but may be incomplete.

You should have NodeJS (and possibly Python) installed on your machine. Then:

npx meteor

The Meteor docs have further details.

After installing meteor and cloning this repository, run

npm start

to start the server. Then navigate to localhost:3000 to see the page.

The run loop that checks for timed-out puzzles can be offloaded to a separate process, and should be when running in production. For details, see the documentation in workers/README.md.

NOTE: These instructions are for older versions of the project using Meteor@2.

1. Install python2 if you don't already have it (needed for nvm). You'll likely also need build-essential and coreutils package if on a fresh Linux install.)

2. Install NVM

3. Install MongoDB. You may want to install the version used in the Heroku mLab instance (as of Spring 2020, that's 3.6.9). Also read the section about preventing apt-get from updating your mongodb install when you're not watching.

4. Install Meteor

5. Use NVM to install Node 8.12 (mirroring Heroku) and set an alias for that version as meteor. If you want to use yarn as well install yarn.

$ nvm install 8.12.0
$ nvm alias meteor 8.12.0
$ nvm use meteor
$ npm i -g yarn # optional, if using yarn

6. Clone the repo

$ git clone git@github.com:cabeese/greatpuzzlehunt.git

7. CD into the repo and install NPM packages

$ cd greatpuzzlehunt/
$ npm install  # or use `yarn install`

8. If you'd like to, edit the settings-development.json file, but don't commit these changes to the repo.

9. Run the application using the scripts define in package.json

$ npm start

10. In another shell you can connect to the Meteor server with the Meteor shell (much like rails console).

$ meteor shell

A few handy scripts exist in the scripts/ directory.

• sh scripts/hh_export.sh will export all the users in the database. Used for "hold harmless" records.
• sh scripts/update-heroku-config will update the configuration settings in Heroku based on the settings-prod.json file.
• sh restore_db.sh will restore the local MongoDB database with the contents of a Mongo "dump" file gph-mongo.dump

You might see an error message about not having the right version of bcrypt/missing bcrypt. Just manually install it:

$ meteor npm install bcrypt

If you get a @babel/runtime error, reinstall the correct babel runtime version:

$ meteor npm install @babel/runtime@7.0.0-beta.55

If you're developing on Windows, you may encounter a cannot find module 'fibers' error. To fix this, run the following command:

meteor update --release 1.6.1.2-rc.0