setup.rst

Setup

In order to run Facet locally, here are instructions for how to structure your setup.

Development Environment

Prerequisites:

• Python 2.7 (currently people use 2.7.10)
• PostgreSQL 9.4

Go into the repo root and

virtualenv-2.7 venv or virtualenv venv

and then

source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements/local.txt

# create postgresql user "facet" which will own the database
createuser -P facet

If you get error(s) from the pip install such as:

Could not find a version that satisfies the requirement django-watson==1.2.0#egg=watson...
No matching distribution found for django-watson==1.2.0#egg=watson...

Then your virtual environment may have a buggy version of pip. Try "upgrading" pip to a good version:

pip install -U pip==8.1.1

Enter a password, and then:

# create postgresql database "facet", owned by postgresql user "facet"
createdb -O facet facet

# run Django's "migrate" command, which will run newer migrations than initial
python project/manage.py migrate

This will give you a superuser account, "admin", with the password "admin".

Ongoing Setup

As changes are made to the model, you'll want to migrate your database. You can keep up with this with:

python project/manage.py migrate

To update the search engine indexes:

python project/manage.py buildwatson

To launch a development webserver:

python project/manage.py runserver