Working with IntelliJ IDEA

Installation

You can download IntelliJ here.

Note: We use the Ultimate version (free if you're a student), if you use the community edition some features (e.g. the Run Dashboard) may not be available.

Setting up the project

The repository contains a .idea directory with IntelliJ project files, so you should be able to directly open the repository root. This may take a few minutes the first time as indexes are being built.

Before your first build, you will need to run a full maven build to generate the models from the database. You can do that from the command line by running mvn clean compile package install from the root directory of the repository.

Starting POGS

Check if redis server is running, you will get the PONG message:

$redis-cli ping
PONG

If redis is not running start it with:

$redis-server &

Go to Intellij and use RUN the configuration called "POGS (development)". If you don't see that configuration, you can also run the application directly from the PlatformForOnlineGroupStudiesApplication class. Make sure you set the active profile to development, which enables hot reloading of static files.