Snowball is the platform supporting (and also developed by) the Odd-e Certified Scrum Developer training classes.

• Front-end framework: no front-end framework so far. Plain JavaScript, tested using nodejs.
• Backend framework: Simple Servlet runs on Jetty (via Gradle plugin 'gretty')
• Database: MongoDB

If MongoDB is not installed, install it with homebrew (MacOS)

brew install mongodb

And start it with

brew service mongodb start

Database names:

• test: snowball_test
• development: snowball
• production: snowball

The current Gradle version is 5.6.

Go to the root directory of this project and:

`./gradlew appStart

gradle test

gradle cucumber

npm install
npm test

• The environment variables MM_EMAIL_USERID and MM_EMAIL_PASSWORD are required to send emails out.
• On Mac OS X, add the following to your environment variables (~/.bash_profile).

export MM_EMAIL_USERID=<email>
export MM_EMAIL_PASSWORD=<pwd>
launchctl setenv MM_EMAIL_USERID $MM_EMAIL_USERID
launchctl setenv MM_EMAIL_PASSWORD $MM_EMAIL_PASSWORD

• Reboot your IDE.

On MacOS, after the Sierra update a function call to "InetAddress.getLocalHost" becomes very slow (5000ms). Adding the following to the /etc/hosts will solve the problem:

127.0.0.1   localhost mbpro.local
::1         localhost mbpro.local