11 September 2014

Last Update: January 24th 2018  This guide takes 14.04 but it should be almost the same for 16 or 17. Due to a package bug, we got quite a few questions about how to build Hue consistently. Here is a step by step guide about how to get up and running. First, make sure that you are indeed on the 14.04: lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.…

24 July 2014

December 2020: GitHub pull requests are now prefered https://docs.gethue.com/developer/development/#development-process After the Review Board post, here is another tutorial about becoming an awesome Hue developer: how to run the Hue tests! Hue has two types of tests: unit tests integration tests First, clone the Hue repository and make sure that you have all the pre-requisite packages: git clone [email protected]:cloudera/hue.git Unit Tests The regular unit tests do not require all this setup!…

17 July 2014

December 2020: GitHub pull requests are now prefered https://docs.gethue.com/developer/development/#development-process Note: During the development process if you are facing any problem then, it is recommended to check your issues at https://discourse.gethue.com/ and https://github.com/cloudera/hue/issues?q=is%3Aissue+. If the solution is not found then, feel free to create an issue at https://github.com/cloudera/hue/issues. Here is a tutorial about how to use the code review tool Review Board for a better productivity! Setup Hue project uses Review Board and Pull Requests for code reviews.…

15 July 2014

Hue 3.6 ships with a bug in the Beeswax and Impala apps that might round some big numbers on the query result panels. We've come up with a bookmarklet that solves the problem. Just drag this button Fix the Hue Big Numbers! to your bookmarks bar. Before running any Hive or Impala query in Hue, click on the newly created bookmarklet to fix the bug! As usual feel free to comment on the hue-user list or @gethue!…

12 June 2014

A Web proxy lets you centralize all the access to a certain URL and prettify the address (e.g. ec2-54-247-321-151.compute-1.amazonaws.com --> demo.gethue.com). Have you ever wondered how we got Hue working under a proxy on demo.gethue.com? (if you missed the Cluster setup video, here it is!) Here's a sample configuration we use on our servers. We know the Apache web server pretty well so we went for it. We even configured the server to display a custom error page in case the Hue server is down/not working.…

11 June 2014

Hue 3.6+ ships with three font icon sets: Font Awesome 4 (http://fontawesome.io/), the Hue Filetypes font and the Hue Chart font that includes some basic charts you might need. The icons are available in the Hue master or in this zip file: When you want to use the new icons in your app, you have first to import the Hue Charts css in your .mako template:  <link href="/static/ext/css/hue-charts.css" rel="stylesheet"> and then define you icons with the same way you would do with Font Awesome.…

04 April 2014

Hue 3.5 ships with a bug in the Map Chart widget that prevents the users to correctly display the map in their browsers. Don't despair though! We've come up with a bookmarklet that solves the problem. Just drag this button Fix the Hue Map! to your bookmarks bar. When you are on the Chart panel of the Hive or Impala app in Hue, click on the Map icon, select the latitude and longitude columns and then click on the newly created bookmarklet to fix the bug!…

14 March 2014

When going on the Home page (/home) in Hue 3.0, this error could appear: MultipleObjectsReturned: get() returned more than one DocumentPermission - it returned 2! Lookup parameters were {'perms': 'read', 'doc': <Document: saved query Sample: Job loss sample>} This is fixed in Hue 3.6 and here is a way to repair it: Backup the Hue database. Run the cleanup script: from desktop.models import DocumentPermission, Document…

06 March 2014

Django meetup from gethue SF Django Meetup: How to integrate Hadoop with Hue Main talk More pizzas Lot of mingling A great event!

21 February 2014

From San Francisco Developer Meetup