[web-devel] Yesod beginner

[Michael Snoyman]

Can you add a Wiki page[1] with your install experiences? I'll link to
it from the "five minutes" page.

As for the sendmail issue: I'm actually going to need a backend for
Amazon SES for sending email, so I'd like to get that written. (Any
volunteers? Aristid already has a great aws package that should do
most of the heavy lifting.[2]) There's also haskellnet which uses
SMTP, but I haven't used it.

Michael

[1] http://www.yesodweb.com/page/wiki
[2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/aws

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 5:23 PM, anthropornis <anthropornis at gmail.com> wrote:
> (I forgot to mention earlier, I'm also new to Haskell, sorta starting with
> Yesod first to just get something running, then going on to learning
> Haskell, so I can get rid of a PHP CRUD interface for an existing db.)
>
> I tried cabal install without any flags and it eventually worked.
>
> Initially cabal yielded this error:
>    cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>    HDBC-postgresql-2.2.3.3 failed during the configure step. The exception
> was:
>    ExitFailure 1
>    persistent-postgresql-0.5.0 depends on HDBC-postgresql-2.2.3.3 which
> failed to install.
>    sample-0.0.0 depends on HDBC-postgresql-2.2.3.3 which failed to install.
>
>
> Reading further up in the terminal output I saw something mentioned about
> one package needing to be installed for server side extensions, or libpq-dev
> needing to be installed for client side applications.
>
> I took a chance that libpq-dev would be the right choice and installed it,
> then ran cabal install again, and this time it worked, and I was able to
> launch the dev server.
>
> Viewing the page in my web browser I attempted to add an email login, but
> nothing happened. Switching back to the terminal it said sendmail needed to
> be installed. After installing sendmail I was able to create a login.
>
> I had one question about sendmail. I noted somewhere else in your docs that
> I could possibly do something like Adobe AIR (?) and make an executable with
> Webkit in it as an offline version of the web app (which would be really
> cool, by the way).  I wasn't sure, if I put that executable on someone's
> Windows machine, is sendmail available for Windows or can the email pieces
> be switched with something other than sendmail if needed?
>
> Thanks again
>
>
> On 06/15/2011 10:52 PM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:46 AM, anthropornis<anthropornis at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I was following the "Yesod in Five Minutes Instructions" and I had a
>>> couple
>>> of bumps in the road.
>>>
>>> The first one was when trying to do step 6, I get the following terminal
>>> output:
>>>    unrecognized option `--only-dependencies'
>>>
>>> After ignoring that for the moment, I proceeded to trying to run the
>>> devel
>>> server and I get this terminal output:
>>>    yesod: user error (At least the following dependencies are missing:
>>>    persistent-postgresql ==0.5.*)
>>>
>>> I'm guessing the second error may be related to the first, maybe
>>> persistent-postgresql was one of those dependencies that was supposed to
>>> be
>>> installed?
>>>
>>> I did create the Postgres databases and user specified in the Yesod app
>>> config file.
>>>
>>> I'm using this PPA on Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit, as the repo version of the
>>> Haskell Platform seems to be broken:
>>>    https://launchpad.net/~brcha/+archive/ppa
>>>
>>> Thanks for any insight.
>>>
>> Try just plain "cabal install", the "--only-dependencies" is available
>> in newer versions of the "cabal" tool. I'm going to remove it from the
>> docs.
>>
>> Michael
>
>