[annotator-dev] New dev and my first problem

Ewald Zietsman ewald at siyavula.com
Mon Jul 25 09:21:11 UTC 2011


Thank you sir. It runs now.

We need our own store because we want to link it with a bug tracker and will
most likely need to make some changes to all the software to make them work
together.

I'll be back here soon enough.

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>wrote:

> On 25 July 2011 09:19, Ewald Zietsman <ewald at siyavula.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I work for a company that creates open educational resources and tools for
>> educators and students. I've been given the task to make our books
>> annotatable using the annotator software.
>>
>
> Great to hear!
>
>
>> I have checked out the latest git source for the annotator-store and tried
>> to run it using the instructions on the website. When I get to the "python
>> run.py" step I get the following:
>>
>
> Just to check: you know you don't need to deploy the store to integrate
> with your system as you can use the existing annotateit.org service as
> your storage if you want. I would imagine that, at least in the first
> instance, this will be easier as it will allow you to focus on integrating
> the frontend javascript system.
>
>
>> (pyenv)ewald at ewald-laptop:~/programming/annotator-store$ python run.py
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "run.py", line 6, in <module>
>>     setup_app()
>>   File "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/annotator/app.py", line
>> 23, in setup_app
>>     model.init_model(app.config)
>>   File "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/annotator/model/couch.py",
>> line 18, in init_model
>>     Metadata.DB = setup_db(config['COUCHDB_DATABASE'])
>>   File "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/annotator/model/couch.py",
>> line 21, in setup_db
>>     if dbname in Metadata.SERVER:
>>   File
>> "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/pyenv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/couchdb/client.py",
>> line 93, in __contains__
>>     self.resource.head(validate_dbname(name))
>>   File
>> "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/pyenv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/couchdb/http.py",
>> line 377, in head
>>     return self._request('HEAD', path, headers=headers, **params)
>>   File
>> "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/pyenv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/couchdb/http.py",
>> line 419, in _request
>>     credentials=self.credentials)
>>   File
>> "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/pyenv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/couchdb/http.py",
>> line 239, in request
>>     resp = _try_request_with_retries(iter(self.retry_delays))
>>   File
>> "/home/ewald/programming/annotator-store/pyenv/lib/python2.6/site-packages/couchdb/http.py",
>> line 205, in _try_request_with_retries
>>     raise e
>> socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused
>>
>
> You have installed and are running couchdb right :-) ?
>
> Rufus
>
>
>> I'm running on Ubuntu 10.10 32-bit. Any help in this regard will be
>> greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> *
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>


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