X-Git-Url: https://git.arvados.org/arvados.git/blobdiff_plain/41a052d1faf57249eeb86674256372225ff9b7ed..f35aae3c6732a7e08253367517c61ab3071086d1:/doc/Rakefile

diff --git a/doc/Rakefile b/doc/Rakefile
index c13cea3c1a..4427f7822e 100644
--- a/doc/Rakefile
+++ b/doc/Rakefile
@@ -8,6 +8,16 @@
 # generating the documentation for the SDKs, which (the R docs
 # especially) take a fair bit of time and slow down the edit-preview
 # cycle.
+#
+# To generate and view the documentation locally, run this command
+#
+#   rake && sensible-browser .site/index.html
+#
+# Or alternatively:
+#
+#   baseurl=http://localhost:8000 rake && rake run
+#
+# and then visit http://localhost:8000 in a browser.
 
 require "rubygems"
 require "colorize"
@@ -20,6 +30,15 @@ end
 
 task :generate => [ :realclean, 'sdk/python/arvados/index.html', 'sdk/R/arvados/index.html', 'sdk/java-v2/javadoc/index.html' ] do
   vars = ['baseurl', 'arvados_cluster_uuid', 'arvados_api_host', 'arvados_workbench_host']
+  if ! ENV.key?('baseurl') || ENV['baseurl'] == ""
+    if !ENV.key?('WORKSPACE') || ENV['WORKSPACE'] == ""
+      puts "The `baseurl` variable was not specified and the `WORKSPACE` environment variable is not set. Defaulting `baseurl` to file://#{pwd}/.site"
+      ENV['baseurl'] = "file://#{pwd}/.site/"
+    else
+      puts "The `baseurl` variable was not specified, defaulting to a value derived from the `WORKSPACE` environment variable"
+      ENV['baseurl'] = "file://#{ENV['WORKSPACE']}/doc/.site/"
+    end
+  end
   vars.each do |v|
     if ENV[v]
       website.config.h[v] = ENV[v]
@@ -141,7 +160,8 @@ task :linkchecker => [ :generate ] do
   Dir.chdir(".site") do
     `which linkchecker`
     if $? == 0
-      system "linkchecker index.html --ignore-url='!file://'" or exit $?.exitstatus
+      # we need --check-extern to check relative links, weird but true
+      system "linkchecker index.html --check-extern --ignore-url='!file://'" or exit $?.exitstatus
     else
       puts "Warning: linkchecker not found, skipping run".colorize(:light_red)
     end