# Contributing

### Building

You need either [Docker](https://github.com/docker/docker) and `make` (Method 1), or `go` and `glide` (Method 2) in order to build traefik.

#### Method 1: Using `Docker` and `Makefile`

You need to run the `binary` target. This will create binaries for Linux platform in the `dist` folder.

```bash
$ make binary
docker build -t "traefik-dev:no-more-godep-ever" -f build.Dockerfile .
Sending build context to Docker daemon 295.3 MB
Step 0 : FROM golang:1.5
 ---> 8c6473912976
Step 1 : RUN go get github.com/Masterminds/glide
[...]
docker run --rm  -v "/var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock" -it -e OS_ARCH_ARG -e OS_PLATFORM_ARG -e TESTFLAGS -v "/home/emile/dev/go/src/github.com/containous/traefik/"dist":/go/src/github.com/containous/traefik/"dist"" "traefik-dev:no-more-godep-ever" ./script/make.sh generate binary
---> Making bundle: generate (in .)
removed 'gen.go'

---> Making bundle: binary (in .)

$ ls dist/
traefik*
```

#### Method 2: Using `go` and `glide`

###### Setting up your `go` environment

- You need `go` v1.5+ (1.7 is acceptable)
- You need to set `$ export GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT=1` environment variable if you are using go v1.5 (it is already enabled in 1.6+)
- It is recommended you clone Træfɪk into a directory like `~/go/src/github.com/containous/traefik` (This is the official golang workspace hierarchy, and will allow dependencies to resolve properly)
- This will allow your `GOPATH` and `PATH` variable to be set to `~/go` via:
```
$ export GOPATH=~/go
$ export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin
```

This can be verified via `$ go env`
- You will want to add those 2 export lines to your `.bashrc` or `.bash_profile`
- You need `go-bindata` to be able to use `go generate` command (needed to build) : `$ go get github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata/...` (Please note, the ellipses are required)

###### Setting up your `glide` environment

- Glide can be installed either via homebrew: `$ brew install glide` or via the official glide script: `$ curl https://glide.sh/get | sh`

The idea behind `glide` is the following :

- when checkout(ing) a project, run `$ glide install` from the cloned directory to install
  (`go get …`) the dependencies in your `GOPATH`.
- if you need another dependency, import and use it in
  the source, and run `$ glide get github.com/Masterminds/cookoo` to save it in
  `vendor` and add it to your `glide.yaml`.

```bash
$ glide install
# generate (Only required to integrate other components such as web dashboard)
$ go generate
# Standard go build
$ go build
# Using gox to build multiple platform
$ gox "linux darwin" "386 amd64 arm" \
    -output="dist/traefik_{{.OS}}-{{.Arch}}"
# run other commands like tests
```

### Tests

##### Method 1: `Docker` and `make`

You can run unit tests using the `test-unit` target and the
integration test using the `test-integration` target.

```bash
$ make test-unit
docker build -t "traefik-dev:your-feature-branch" -f build.Dockerfile .
# […]
docker run --rm -it -e OS_ARCH_ARG -e OS_PLATFORM_ARG -e TESTFLAGS -v "/home/vincent/src/github/vdemeester/traefik/dist:/go/src/github.com/containous/traefik/dist" "traefik-dev:your-feature-branch" ./script/make.sh generate test-unit
---> Making bundle: generate (in .)
removed 'gen.go'

---> Making bundle: test-unit (in .)
+ go test -cover -coverprofile=cover.out .
ok      github.com/containous/traefik   0.005s  coverage: 4.1% of statements

Test success
```

For development purposes, you can specify which tests to run by using:
```
# Run every tests in the MyTest suite
TESTFLAGS="-check.f MyTestSuite" make test-integration

# Run the test "MyTest" in the MyTest suite
TESTFLAGS="-check.f MyTestSuite.MyTest" make test-integration

# Run every tests starting with "My", in the MyTest suite
TESTFLAGS="-check.f MyTestSuite.My" make test-integration

# Run every tests ending with "Test", in the MyTest suite
TESTFLAGS="-check.f MyTestSuite.*Test" make test-integration
```

More: https://labix.org/gocheck

##### Method 2: `go` and `glide`

- Tests can be run from the cloned directory, by `$ go test ./...` which should return `ok` similar to:
```
ok      _/home/vincent/src/github/vdemeester/traefik    0.004s
```
- Note that `$ go test ./...` will run all tests (including the ones in the vendor directory for the dependencies that glide have fetched). If you only want to run the tests for traefik use `$ go test $(glide novendor)` instead.


### Documentation

The [documentation site](http://docs.traefik.io/) is built with [mkdocs](http://mkdocs.org/)

First make sure you have python and pip installed

```
$ python --version
Python 2.7.2
$ pip --version
pip 1.5.2
```

Then install mkdocs with pip

```
$ pip install mkdocs
```

To test documentation locally run `mkdocs serve` in the root directory, this should start a server locally to preview your changes.

```
$ mkdocs serve
INFO    -  Building documentation...
WARNING -  Config value: 'theme'. Warning: The theme 'united' will be removed in an upcoming MkDocs release. See http://www.mkdocs.org/about/release-notes/ for more details
INFO    -  Cleaning site directory
[I 160505 22:31:24 server:281] Serving on http://127.0.0.1:8000
[I 160505 22:31:24 handlers:59] Start watching changes
[I 160505 22:31:24 handlers:61] Start detecting changes
```