Creating your project with IntelliJ

Now we have a development environment configured, lets create the project and start taking it to the next level.

Creating a project in IntelliJ

New Project
New Project from Scratch
Enter the name: mongometer
Select Maven Module
Next
Select Create from archetype (I chose maven j2ee simple)

Arrrrg! Don't do this! Man, IntelliJ sat spinning the tyres for an age.  I ended up killing it and starting again.

To delete a project, close intellij and remove the project folder
projects are in IdeaProjects
$rm -r ~/IdeaProjects/mongometer

Second time around
New Project
New Project from Scratch
Enter the name: mongometer
Select Maven Module
Next
Deselect the create from archetype

Create a package
Create the classes and the properties file

Fix imports
Add dependencies to the pom.xml

This is what I need for mongometer

• junit4.10
  
• mongodb 2.7.2
  
• ApacheJMeter_core 2.6
  
• jorphan 2.6
  

Push to GitHub

$cd ~/IdeaProjects/mongometer
$git init
$git add *.java
$git add *.properties
$git add *.xml
$git commit -m 'Initial upload of the project'
$git remote add origin ssh://github.com/yourname/mongometer.git
$git push -u origin +master

Voilà! You can go to your repo, and the project files are there.  Happy days.

Points of interest

• The + performs a force push to github.  I'm guessing this happened because when I created a new repository on GitHub I opted to create the README file.  I won't do this again.
  
• IntelliJ complained about setting up the repo outside of IntelliJ.  No problem, you just add the repo inside IntelliJ.  I've been an Eclipse person for years (though we've decided that we'd like spend some time apart) so I'm not 100% sure of how to do this inside IntelliJ just yet.
  
• This is a great site for listing dependencies http://mvnrepository.com/ for setting up your pom.xml

Configuring the mongometer Development Environment

As I've already set up a git repository on Ubuntu and published the step-by-step, command-by-command instructions for doing this, I thought it would be worth publishing the same guides for setting up the entire development environment on Ubuntu.

Set up your JDK

Download
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk-7u4-downloads-1591156.html

Configure
$tar -xvf ~/Downloads/jdk-7u4-linux-x64.tar.gz
$sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0
$sudo mv jdk1.7.0_04/* /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/
$rm -r jdk1.7.0_04
$sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/java" "java" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/bin/java" 1
$sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javac" "javac" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/bin/javac" 1
$sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/javaws" "javaws" "/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/bin/javaws" 1
$mkdir ~/.mozilla/plugins/
$ln -s /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/jre/lib/amd64/libnpjp2.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/

Set up MongoDB

Download
http://www.mongodb.org/dr/fastdl.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-2.0.6.tgz/download
$md5sum ~/Downloads/mongodb-linux-x86_64-2.0.6.tgz
69eece640fcb1684190a4585f31df954

Configure
$tar -zxvf ~/Downloads/mongodb-linux-x86_64-2.0.6.tgz
$sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/mongodb/2.0.6
$sudo mv mongodb-linux-x86_64-2.0.6/* /usr/lib/mongodb/2.0.6/
$rm -r mongodb-linux-x86_64-2.0.6
$sudo mkdir -p /data/db
$sudo chown `id -un` /data/db
$/usr/lib/mongodb/2.0.6/bin/mongod --dbpath /data/db --logpath /data/db/mongod.log
$mongod --config /etc/mongod.conf

(from a new terminal start the shell)
$cd /usr/lib/mongodb/2.0.6/bin/
$./mongo
> db.test.save( { a: 1 } )
> db.test.find()

Set up Maven

Download
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/maven/binaries/apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz
$md5sum ~/Downloads/apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz
e513740978238cb9e4d482103751f6b7

Configure
$tar -xzvf ~/Downloads/apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz
$sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/maven/3.0.4
$sudo mv apache-maven-3.0.4/* /usr/local/maven/3.0.4
$rm -r apache-maven-3.0.4

$sudo gedit /etc/environment

JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0"
M2_HOME="/usr/local/maven/3.0.4"
MAVEN_HOME="/usr/local/maven/3.0.4"
M2="/usr/local/maven/3.0.4/bin"
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/maven/3.0.4/bin"

Verifiy the configuration
Logout and login

$mvn -version
$mkdir ~/.m2
$sudo chown `id -un` -R ~/.m2

Set up IntelliJ

Download
http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/

$tar -xvf ~/Downloads/ideaIC-11.1.2.tar.gz
$cd ~/idea-IC-117.418/bin
$chmod +x idea.sh
$./idea.sh

(this is the initial install of intellij, so take the second option)
File -> Project Structure
Platform Settings -> SDKs
Add -> JSDK
 /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/
 Select -> OK

Set up JMeter

Download
http://mirror.lividpenguin.com/pub/apache//jmeter/binaries/apache-jmeter-2.7.tgz
$md5sum ~/Downloads/apache-jmeter-2.7.tgz
73435baa6ed99c528dacfa36c7e1f119

Configure
$tar -zxvf ~/Downloads/apache-jmeter-2.7.tgz
$sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/jmeter/2.7
$sudo mv apache-jmeter-2.7/* /usr/lib/jmeter/2.7/
$rm -r apache-jmeter-2.7
$/usr/lib/jmeter/2.7/bin/jmeter.sh

Install git on ubuntu

This is a brief step by step guide to install git and hook up to github using ssh.

Get git
$sudo apt-get install git-core

Check the install
$which git
$git --version

Configure git
$git config --global user.name "Firstname Lastname"
$git config --global user.email you@domain.com

Set up your ssh key
$ssh-keygen -t rsa -C "you@domain.com"
[hit enter]
set your key password
Your identification has been saved in /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa.
Your public key has been saved in /home/username/.ssh/id_rsa.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
fingerprint you@domain.com

Add the key to github
$less ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
Copy the key to your clipboard

Go to your github Account Settings

Click "SSH Keys" in the left sidebar
Click "Add SSH key"
Paste your key into the "Key" field
Click "Add key"
Confirm the action by entering your GitHub password

Verify the key
$ssh -T git@github.com
Y
enter the key password

You should get a success, "but GitHub does not provide shell access".

Set up a test repo
$mkdir repo-name
$cd repo-name
$git init
$touch README
$git add README
$git commit -m 'first commit'
$git remote add origin https://github.com/gitusername/repo-name.git
$git push -u origin master

you'll get a 403 error

Getting past the 403 error
$vi .git/config
change https for ssh
$git push -u origin master

you'll get a Permission denied (publickey) error

hmmm

$ssh-add -l shows the same fingerprint as the account settings on github
$ssh -vT git@github.com comes back saying I have successfully authenticated...

Getting past the Permission denied error
$cd ~/.ssh
$vi config

Host github.com
User git
Port 22
Hostname github.com
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa
TCPKeepAlive yes
IdentitiesOnly yes

$git push -u origin master

Happy days! You should now see the README file on github