Dallinger Cookiecutter

This repository contains a template for creating a simple Dallinger experiment using cookiecutter. To use this template, you'll first need to install cookiecutter using pip:

pip install cookiecutter

Then you can create a new experiment package in the current directory using the following command:

cookiecutter https://github.com/Dallinger/cookiecutter-dallinger.git

This will provide you with prompts for the following information about your experiment:

• repo_name: The GitHub repository name where experiment package will eventually live. This should not contain any spaces or special characters other than - and _.

• package_name: The python package name for your experiment. This should be all lower case and not contain any spaces or special characters other than _.

• experiment_name: A name for your experiment.

• experiment_class: The python class name for your custom experiment class. This should not contain any spaces or special characters.

• experiment_description: A short description of your experiment

• author: The package author's full name

• author_email: The contact email for the experiment author.

• author_github: The GitHub account name where the package will eventually live.

Once you've answered those questions a new directory named with the repo_name you provided will be created. The package in that directory will contain a basic Dallinger experiment, an example Bot that runs through the experiment as a simulated browser, an automated test harness, and documentation generation tools. The package can be installed with pip (pip install -e .) and/or uploaded to the Python Package Index (PyPI).

To being developing the package you will need to install the development requirements, using the command:

pip install -r dev-requirements.txt

Then you can run the test suite and validation tools using the tox command.

Your experiment package will also contain a Vagrantfile which is intended to create and configure virtual machines using Vagrant. Once you've installed Vagrant, install the vbguest plugin using the command vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest. Now you should be able to use vagrant up from the experiment directory to create a Linux virtual machine with dallinger and its dependencies installed, and vagrant ssh to connect to it. More details can be found in the Dallinger documentation