Application setup

Initialize application

A RimStone application must be initialized first. This means creating a directory structure owned by application owner, which can be any Operating System user. To initialize application <app name> while logged-in as application owner:

rim -k <app name>

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Setup database(s)

If your application does not use database(s), you can skip this part.

You can setup your database(s) in any way you see fit, and this includes creating the database objects (such as tables or indexes) used by your application; all RimStone needs to know is the connection parameters, which include database login information (but can include other things as well). For each database in use, you must provide a database-config-file in the same directory as your RimStone source code. This file contains the database connection parameters - these parameters are database-specific. For example, if your code has statements like:

run-query @mydb = ...

//or

begin-transaction @sales_db

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then you must have files "mydb" and "sales_db" present. For example, MariaDB config file might look like:

[client]
user=myuser
password=pwd
database=mydb
protocol=TCP
host=127.0.0.1
port=3306

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or for PostgreSQL:

user=myuser password=mypwd dbname=mydb

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Make application

To compile and link the application that doesn't use database(s):

rim -q

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When you have database(s) in use, for instance assuming in above example that "mydb" is MariaDB database, "sales_db" is PostgreSQL, and "contacts" is SQLite database:

rim -q --db="mariadb:mydb postgres:sales_db sqlite:contacts"

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See rim for more options.

Start application

Stop the application first in case it was running, then start the application - for example:

mrim -m quit <app name>
mrim -w 3 <app name>

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See mrim for more details.

Running application

You can run your application as service, CGI or command-line.