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CMS

Drupal 7 – Setup Bootstrap 3 Theme with Gulp for LESS compilation

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Got a new responsive site freelance and i would like to try Bootstrap 3 theme in Drupal 7. A little bit confused at the very beginning because the theme has a lot of features and bug fixes ongoing. So the documentation is a bit lacking and i have to make some trials and errors before knowing what to do.

Some Drupal developers may also have problem on compiling LESS. So here i include a gulp script and some NodeJS packages to help.

Assume you have setup the Drupal 7.

1. Download the Bootstrap 3 Drupal theme. The current stable version is 7.x-3.0 which is a bit old and only works with Bootstrap 3.0.x. I am going to use 7.x-3.1 which supports the latest Bootstrap version (v3.3.2 at the moment i write this post). The 7.x-3.1 is still in beta (7.x-3.1-beta2). You could download it from the releases listing page.

2. Extract the Bootstrap 3 base theme to the sites/all/themes folder. You would found the starterkits folder containing the subthemes. as follow. Continue reading Drupal 7 – Setup Bootstrap 3 Theme with Gulp for LESS compilation →

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Puppet

Puppet – Run exec as a specific user

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I would like to Puppet to install the node modules which is specified in the Node.js project package.json. But the Puppet agent is run under the root account while the project is owned by another Linux user. The Puppet exec type allows you the specific the running user but it would not include the environmental variables like the $HOME. Those variables have to be set when calling the exec type just like follow.

exec { "install node modules of a nodejs project":
  cwd         => "/home/ykyuen/nodejs-project",
  command     => "npm install",
  user        => "ykyuen",
  environment => ["HOME=/home/ykyuen"],
}

 

If you need to set more than one environmental variable, just add them in an array format.

  environment => ["HOME=/home/ykyuen", "FOO=foo"],

 

Done =)

Reference: Puppet Docs: Type Reference – Exec

NodeJS

Ubuntu – Install Node Ver­sion Man­ager globally for all users

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The Node Ver­sion Man­ager(nvm) could help you to manage multiple Node.js installations. The following steps are executed from root account.

1. Install the required packages.

apt-get install build-essential openssl libssl-dev curl

 

2. Create a new user group and add those users which are allowed to manage Node.js installation. The following command create a new group called dev.

groupadd dev

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Web Development

Setup Yeoman in Windows PowerShell

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Update @ 2015-09-23: Using PowerShell is just my personal preference, You could use MS-DOS in Windows if your machine doesn’t have PowerShell installed.

1. Download Node.js and install it and make sure you have the npm package manager selected before the installation.
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