pyrite

A web-based test engine for research on visual presentation factors in online news articles. A slimmed-down version of this application was created to administer this experiment in a proctored setting: that code can be found at https://github.com/marijnburger/pyrite_proctored.

Local Setup

1. Download repository & install Node.js
2. Install bower globally: $ npm install -g bower
3. $ npm install will install all necessary npm dependencies listed in package.json, followed by automatically installing all bower dependencies in bower.json
4. Generate articles (see below)
5. Initialize application: $ sudo node server.js (needs 'sudo' because it runs on port 80)
6. Visit application in a web browser at http://localhost/

EC2 Setup

1. Download repository
2. Copy directory pyrite_prod to EC2 Instance
3. Connect to EC2 instance via SSH
4. Install npm, bower, and forever locally
5. Navigate into pyrite_prod/ and compile dependencies: $ npm install
6. Generate articles (see below)
7. Launch: $ sudo forever start server.js
8. Visit application in a web browser at EC2 instance address

Generate Articles

1. Navigate into directory app/scripts/articleGenerator/
2. Build directories: $ node run.js buckets
3. Generate articles: $ node run.js all

• If any articles need to be redone, do so with $ node run.js [article-id] where [article-id] is the string of numbers and dashes at the end of the article's title, i.e. article_[article-id].html

4. Copy the newly created and filled directory articles/ to public/data/