Rails debugging for Manifold

[kelynch]

We are consistently getting a 503 error when following the out-of-the-box installation instructions for Manifold. Manifold is an omnibus solution bundle, meaning it runs its own services including nginx, sidekiq, Rails, cable, logrotate, and others. The error is happening before manifold even reaches any of PUL's own networking tools or infrastructure.

Determine which service(s) cannot communicate with other services within the solution bundle and troubleshoot for installation.

• Error with Server installation manifold-staging1 & manifold-prod1
  Installed by ansible and then updated with omnibus installation with a run book
• Manifold Node 12 to Node 18 upgrade  #4306
• Install on Developer machine https://manifoldscholar.github.io/manifold-docusaurus/docs/developers/local_development/
• start a conversation with manifold dev team about security and updates #4322
• Join manifold slack team (Lauren Davidson has been merging PRs and is from a private company Cast Iron)

[jrgriffiniii]

While investigating this with @carolyncole and @kayiwa, it was discovered that the client was implemented using the Server-Side React framework along with Redux.

Redux Actions utilize the Fetch API in order to request JSON data from the API endpoints, however, the URL for these endpoints is forced over the HTTP (rather than tunneled over TLS using HTTPS). This is due to the following Chef template:

https://github.com/ManifoldScholar/manifold-omnibus/blob/master/cookbooks/manifold/templates/default/browser-env.js.erb#L5

Manually editing this permits one to ensure that the SSL_ENABLED value is set, which is then propagated to the following:

https://github.com/ManifoldScholar/manifold/blob/master/client/src/config/services/index.js#L15

Without adjusting this, setting the Manifold variable @nginx["listen_https"] to true will trigger a failure for the NGINX reverse proxy, as one is required to provide a valid X.509 certificate for the NGINX reverse proxy even when this is load-balanced.

[jrgriffiniii]

Using a fork under my personal account (https://github.com/jrgriffiniii/manifold), I have made progress with the following pull requests:

• Updating the required Ruby release to the 3.0.z series jrgriffiniii/manifold#1
• Integrating Lando and resolving issues affecting Rails migrations jrgriffiniii/manifold#2

These support Ruby 3.0.5 releases and integrate Lando for testing.

[jrgriffiniii]

Unfortunately, attempting to execute the rspec test suites raises the following errors:

[...]
An error occurred while loading ./spec/services/search/query_builder_spec.rb.
Failure/Error: raise FormattedAttributes::AlreadyDefinedError, "Already defined #{definition.path.inspect}" unless @definitions.add?(definition)

FormattedAttributes::AlreadyDefinedError:
  Already defined "series_title"
# ./app/services/formatted_attributes/configuration.rb:112:in `add!'
# ./app/services/formatted_attributes/configuration.rb:28:in `define!'
# ./app/models/concerns/has_formatted_attributes.rb:66:in `has_formatted_attribute'

This seems to be related to the following area of the codebase:

An error occurred while loading ./spec/services/search/query_builder_spec.rb.
Failure/Error: mapping.fetch(needle, &block)

KeyError:
  key not found: ReadingGroupProject(id: uuid, reading_group_id: uuid, project_...
  Did you mean?  "reading_group"
# ./app/services/concerns/multi_keyable.rb:153:in `block in fetch'
# ./app/services/concerns/multi_keyable.rb:152:in `fetch'
# ./app/models/concerns/collection_entry.rb:48:in `collector_definition'
# ./app/models/concerns/collection_entry.rb:54:in `collectable_definition'
# ./app/models/concerns/collection_entry.rb:27:in `collectable_associations'
# ./app/models/concerns/reading_group_entry.rb:8:in `block in <module:ReadingGroupEntry>'

[jrgriffiniii]

Until the new release of Manifold is completed (currently ManifoldScholar/manifold#3605 is blocking this), it is been decided that progress on this should be deprioritized.

[bess]

We are not going to be running manifold ourselves, so we are closing this ticket.