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The nds command is used to do management, both on the server, and while developing.
Quick usage help of nds is documented in a MOTD message when logging on to the server, as well as with --help adding to the commands. For example nds --help (for overall help), or nds compile --help (help with the compile command).
(Aliases up, update-dict, update-dicts, update-dictionary, update-dictionaries).
Usage: nds update PROJECT
The update command updates the dictionaries. It reads the config file for PROJECT, and uses gut to git pull dict-* on all dict-xxx-yyy that the config file has listed as dictionaries.
(Aliases compile, compile-dict, compile-dicts, compile-dictionary
compile-dictionaries).
Usage: nds compile PROJECT
The compile command will compile (or merge) all <e> tags found in all .xml source files, into one big .xml file, and stored in dicts/xxx-yyy.xml, where xxx and yyy are the languages. It will do this for all dictionaries defined in the PROJECTs configuration file. It uses gut to find the
repositories of the dictionaries.
By default, it will skip dictionary compilation if it detects that the already existing dicts/xxx-yyy.xml file is newer than all of the source .xml files found in the dictionary repository. If you want to force a re-compilation anyway, run it with the -f or --force argument. For example, nds compile sanit --force will re-create all dictionaries belonging to the sanit instance.
(Aliases restart, restart-service).
Usage: nds restart PROJECT
Literally just executes sudo systemctl restart nds-PROJECT, restarting the systemd service for the instance. It will only make sense, and work, on the server.
It’s also possible to run nds restart all to restart all services. It does this sequentially, so it takes some time waiting for each instance to start up in turn.
Usage: nds dev PROJECT
Start a development server for that instance. configs/PROJECT.config.yaml must exist and be configured, even when development locally.
(Aliases list-projects, ls).
Usage: nds list-projects [-i|--include-inactive] [-d|--include-dicts]
In the form without any parameters, it will show a list of all projects which has an existing config file. Use the -i (or --include-inactive) argument to also include the config files with the .in suffix. Use -d (or --include-dicts) to show a list of which dictionaries the instances contain.
strings is a subcommand with 2 child commands: compile and extract. They are used for updating translation strings.
nds strings compile
Run pybabel to compile translation strings found in .po files in the translations/ folder to .mo files.
nds strings extract
Extracts translation strings to template- and *.po files
(Aliases test, test-config, test-configuration).
Usage: nds test PROJECT
Run a test against a project.
Usage: nds add-stem
Adds stem information to the smenob dictionary.