edx/edx-platform — pull request #1957 by wedaly (2013-12-15 19:15:28+00:00)
Title: Added rake commands for devstack

An attempt to simplify running LMS/Studio in the devstack vagrant image.

# Start LMS/Studio (including asset collection and installing prereqs)
rake devstack[lms]
rake devstack[studio]

# Start LMS/Studio skipping asset collection/prereqs
rake devstack:start[lms]
rake devstack:start[studio]

Some of the controversial decisions:

* Replacing "cms" with "studio", for consistency with the rest of the devstack documentation.
* Not using Sass watchers, on the assumption that the design team prefers custom tools like CodeKit

Currently, prereq installation is disabled in devstack by an environment variable. I've put in a PR to change this:
https://github.com/edx/configuration/pull/548 Until then, you'll need to `unset NO_PREREQ_INSTALL` so that prereqs get installed.

Suggested reviewers:

@cpennington for rake file sanity checks
@flowerhack since you asked for simpler devstack commands :)