Feature: Add docker environment for the UI

[syphax-bouazzouni]

What

This PR add a docker environement to the UI app, without installing the depencies (MySQL, Memcached, ruby and rails, node, esbuild, ..)

Requirements

Install docker and docker-compose, see https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

Contains

The docker

1. Mysql
2. Memcached
3. Ruby 2.7.5 & Rails app
4. Node and Esbuild

Running the app

Configuration:

cp .env.example .env
cp config/database.yml.sample config/database.yml

Fill your configuration files https://github.com/ncbo/bioportal_web_ui/blob/master/config/bioportal_config_env.rb.sample

Build everything:

The first time you run this it's going to take 5-10 minutes depending on your internet connection speed and computer's hardware specs. That's because it's going to download a few Docker images and build the Ruby + Yarn dependencies (1,5 GB for all).

docker compose up --build

Create DB

bin/run bin/rails db:setup

Run the web server:

bin/run bin/rails s -b 0.0.0.0

bin/run is wrapper for docker compose exec web sh -c "your command to run inside the container"

What can be done next

• Link to a local ontologies_api_client project (bundle config local.ontologies_api_client path_to_the_local_project)
• A better usage .env file in the rails app configuration files
• Use docker dip
• Optimize the docker to use multiple workers (and be faster)
• ...

[syphax-bouazzouni]

Some news about this,
An official Dockerfile for Rails came out these days

• Docked Rails CLI

  Setting up Rails for the first time with all the dependencies necessary can be daunting for beginners. Docked Rails CLI uses a Docker image to make it much easier, requiring only Docker to be installed.

• Add default Dockerfiles

  This pull request adds Docker files by default to new apps: Dockerfile, .dockerignore, bin/docker-entrypoint. These files can be skipped with --skip-docker. They're intended as a starting point for a production deploy of the application. Not intended for development (use the above mentioned Docked Rails for that). You can see more details about using it on the pull request.

source https://rubyonrails.org/2022/12/30/this-week-in-rails-this-year-in-rails-a-summary-of-2022-42e99b0f

[syphax-bouazzouni]

replaced by ontoportal#21