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Want to contribute to Fred? Here's everything you need to know to get started.
First of all, you'll need a Discord bot token for Fred to connect to Discord with. To get one, you can go to https://discord.com/developers/applications, register a new application, add a bot to the application and activate the "message content intent" and the "server members intent". These intents are needed to receive the content of messages and receive member join events.
Docker is for making containers. If you're not sure what that means, look it up it's real cool! In our case, it helps use set up all needed dependencies for Fred without you needing to do anything other than install Docker. You can get docker here. For Linux, make sure to not use Docker Desktop. For Windows, it is the easiest way. If you don't want to install Docker (especially on Windows where Docker Desktop can take up resources and requires virtualisation to be enabled), you can also manually set up a PostgreSQL DB and configure Fred to point to it. More on that later.
Two choices here: All through docker or hybrid local/docker. I recommend the hybrid way for ease of development. We don't have a proper devcontainer setup so debugging Fred when running in Docker is not great. Instead, in a hybrid setup, you'll use Docker for the postgres DB only and run Fred locally using Poetry.
Run FRED_TOKEN=<your_token> docker compose up -d and that's it! Fred should run.
(Note: This command assumes you're using bash as your shell. For Powershell or other, set the environment variable differently. You can also use a .env file.).
You can verify that the database was properly created and manage it by going to http://localhost:8080 where pgadmin should show.
You can use [email protected] for the user and fred for the password. All of this is customizable in docker-compose.yml.
For this, you'll need poetry installed.
Once Poetry is installed, run poetry install. This should create a .venv folder that contains the virtualenv with all the necessary packages. Activate it using poetry shell or manually.
Now, run docker compose up -d -f docker-compose-deps.yml. This should spin up the postgres DB.
You can verify that the database was properly created and manage it by going to http://localhost:8080 where pgadmin should show.
You can use [email protected] for the user and fred for the password. All of this is customizable in docker-compose-deps.yml.
Almost there! You'll now have to configure Fred. This just means setting the following env vars (found in fred/__main__.py).
"FRED_IP",
"FRED_PORT",
"FRED_TOKEN",
"FRED_SQL_DB",
"FRED_SQL_USER",
"FRED_SQL_PASSWORD",
"FRED_SQL_HOST",
"FRED_SQL_PORT",For convenience, an example.env file is included. If you copy this into your .env, Fred will load them automatically. It includes defaults that will work with the config of the docker-compose-deps.yml. You'll only have to set FRED_TOKEN and maybe change the others if the defaults don't suit you.
Finally, run python -m fred or poetry run fred. Fred should run! You can now adapt this to your setup and run the script from your IDE instead. Don't forget to use the virtualenv python!
Massive thanks to Borketh, Mircea and everyone else that has contributed!