ShipIt Inventory Management

Copyright 2010.

Setup Instructions

Running the application

With Visual Studio

To run the app via Visual Studio:

• Open the ShipIt.sln solution by going to File -> Open -> Project/Solution
• Add a connections.config to both the ShipIt and ShipItTest projects, adding a connection string to each e.g.

<connectionStrings>
  <add name="MyPostgres" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" connectionString="Server=127.0.0.1;Port=5432;Database=ShipItTest;User Id=postgres; Password=password;" />
</connectionStrings>

• Ensure that the main and test connection strings point to different databases

On AWS Elastic Beanstalk

To update a running AWS Elastic Beanstalk instance:

• Install AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio
• Open the Warehouses-CSharp project in Visual Studio and add your AWS credentials to the AWS Toolkit
• Right click on the ShipIt project and select Publish to AWS
• Select the region your prod environment is running on and redeploy to that environment

To check the logs: From the AWS console, go to Services -> Elastic Beanstalk, and choose your instance from the dashboard. Click Logs on the left, then Request Logs.

In the unlikely event that you need to change any of the injected configuration, for example the database connection string or password, then these are available under Configuration -> Software.

Information on the CPU utilisation, and network utilisation is available under Monitoring, it may also be interesting to look at the utilisation or logs of the PostgreSQL database instance which backs this application. These are available under Services -> RDS -> Databases -> shipit.

Unit Tests

Run the tests in Visual Studio by right clicking on the ShipItTest project and choosing "Run Tests".

Due to the "age" of the codebase, the unit tests rely on a connection to the database. Therefore you will need to ensure that you have a database setup whose schema matches the production database. This database can be local or remote. The details of this database are set in the test project's connections.config file that you should have created earlier.