[Rdo-list] Developing Horizon dashboards with RDO

[Matthias Runge]

On 18/02/16 13:54, Gregor Berginc wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I've just migrated from devstack to RDO because it was much easier to
> deploy and configure OpenStack on my dev machine.
> 
> One thing, unfortunately, I couldn't have found. Is there a way to
> facilitate the development of Horizon dashboards? I've noticed that
> dashboards are installed in /usr/shared/openstack-dashboard. I can
> deploy new dashboards and use them by restarting the httpd. The
> directory also has manage.py, but it doesn't seem to work properly (at
> least static resources are missing).
> 
> Thus, I am wondering if there is a way to launch a separate development
> server for Horizon dashboards?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> -Gregor
> 

What do you mean by 'static resources are missing'?

httpd restart runs collectstatic and also runs compress. That means, if
your dashboard is added via plugin, it should be picked up automatically.

Matthias