Testing Quarto outside of Connect
In this video, we walk through the process of testing Quarto markdown outside of Posit Connect. This can help determine if issues are related to Quarto or related to the Posit product
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Hey everybody, my name is Cecil and I'm here with Jay and we're part of the Posit Support team and today we're going to walk through running a Connect document on the Linux command line.
So there may be instances where you have a published application that may have stopped working or you'd like to test it on the Linux command line just to rule out the Posit products as a variable and there's a relatively easy way to do that.
Finding the Connect data directory
First we have to find the data directory that Connect uses and if you haven't set this it defaults to var lib rstudio connect. You can change this if you like and if you change the base directory then you can just change the appended directory on Linux and you can see all your apps.
So in this example because it's the default we can navigate to this directory and find our application. All of our applications will be within this subdirectory and the way we identify it in particular is with the content ID.
Running Quarto preview on the command line
So in this case we'll pull up a terminal, we need to do a quarto preview var lib rstudio connect and we have a bunch of folders in here. So for our particular app we'll need to go into the apps folder and we'll be presented with a selection of numbers and the number that we need corresponds to the content ID which in this case is 40.
So 68 is just the iteration if you've published multiple renditions of this app that number will change but because we only have one we can leave it 68 for now.
Now here we have all of our files. Because this is a Quarto document we will need to run quarto preview on the QMD file So this would be demo.qmd and if we run that command it should process and give us a URL that we can browse to. So it's given us localhost at a randomized port and if we put that into our web browser that should bring up the same app.
