Deploying Rietveld¶

This page describes how to set up a custom instance of the codereview server. It's assumed that you've a already signed up for an App Engine account and that you have registered an application.

Refer to Using Code Reviews with Google Apps if you are an Google Apps customer.

To set up your own instance of the codereview server you'll need to following tools:

• Python 2.5
• App Engine SDK
• Subversion
• Django 1.0

Getting the Sources¶

First you'll have to check out the current source from the project's Subversion repository:

svn checkout http://rietveld.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ rietveld

Configure Your Application¶

Now change into the rietveld directory and open app.yaml to configure your application ID. To do that replace codereview in the first line with your ID, for example:

application: your-application-id

Deploy Rietveld¶

To deploy Rietveld on App Engine you'll have to use make:

make update

In case make is not installed on your system, read the contents of Makefile for what to do (the Makefile is mostly just used as a shorthand, there's nothing to build).

Your own instance of the codereview server should now be ready for serving on http://your-application-id.appspot.com.

Develop Rietveld¶

Use the standard App Engine development style. You need to install Django 1.0 in your system Python installation.

Running Without App Engine¶

It is possible to run it on pure Django using a helper module. See http://django-gae2django.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/examples/rietveld/README