docker run -ti -v /path/to/this/checkout:/home/wger/src --name wger.devel --publish 8000:8000 wger/develThank you for downloading wger Workout Manager. wger (ˈvɛɡɐ) is a free, open source web application that manages your exercises and personal workouts, weight and diet plans. It can also be used as a simple gym management utility, providing different administrative roles (trainer, manager, etc.). It offers a REST API as well, for easy integration with other projects and tools.

It is written with python/django and uses jQuery and some D3js for charts.

For more details and a live system, refer to the project's site: https://wger.de/

Installation

These are the basic steps to install and run the application locally on a Linux system. There are more detailed instructions, other deployment options as well as an administration guide available at https://wger.readthedocs.io or locally in your code repository in the docs folder (make html to compile, then open _build/index.html).

Please consult the commands' help for further information and available parameters.

Docker

Useful to just try it out. Check the documentatio on how to use docker for development:

docker run -ti --name wger.apache --publish 8000:80 wger/apache

Then just open http://localhost:8000 and log in as: admin, password admin

Development version (from git)

Note: You can safely install from master, it is almost always in a usable and stable state.

1. Install the necessary packages

$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev nodejs npm git

Then install the python packages from pypi in the virtualenv:

$ python3 -m venv venv-django
$ source venv-django/bin/activate

2. Start the application. This will download the required JS and CSS libraries and create a SQlite database and populate it with data on the first run.

$ git clone https://github.com/wger-project/wger.git
$ cd wger
$ pip install --upgrade pip
$ pip install -r requirements.txt  # or requirements_devel.txt to develop
$ npm install
$ npm install bower
$ python setup.py develop
$ wger create_settings \
       --settings-path /path/to/current/folder/settings.py \
       --database-path /path/to/current/folder/database.sqlite
$ wger bootstrap \
       --settings-path /path/to/current/folder/settings.py \
       --no-start-server
$ python manage.py runserver

3. Log in as: admin, password admin

After the first run you can just use django's development server:

$ python manage.py runserver

Stable version (from PyPI)

1. Install the necessary packages and their dependencies in a virtualenv

$ sudo apt-get install python3-dev nodejs npm git
$ python3 -m venv venv-django
$ source venv-django/bin/activate
$ pip install wger

2. Start the application. This will download the required JS and CSS libraries and create a SQlite database and populate it with data on the first run. Then, log in as: admin, password admin

$ wger bootstrap

3. To start the installation again, just call wger start

$ wger start

Command line options

You can get a list of all available commands by calling wger without any arguments:

Available tasks:

bootstrap               Performs all steps necessary to bootstrap the application
config_location         Returns the default location for the settings file and the data folder
create_or_reset_admin   Creates an admin user or resets the password for an existing one
create_settings         Creates a local settings file
load_fixtures           Loads all fixtures
migrate_db              Run all database migrations
start                   Start the application using django's built in webserver

You can also get help on a specific command with wger --help <command>.

Contact

Feel free to contact us if you found this useful or if there was something that didn't behave as you expected. We can't fix what we don't know about, so please report liberally. If you're not sure if something is a bug or not, feel free to file a bug anyway.

• gitter: https://gitter.im/wger-project/wger
• issue tracker: https://github.com/wger-project/wger/issues
• twitter: https://twitter.com/wger_de
• mailing list: https://groups.google.com/group/wger / [email protected], no registration needed

Sources

All the code and the content is freely available:

• Main repository: https://github.com/wger-project/wger

Donations

wger is free software and will always remain that way. However, if you want to help and support the project you are more than welcome to donate an amount of your choice.

License

The application is licensed under the Affero GNU General Public License 3 or later (AGPL 3+).

The initial exercise and ingredient data is licensed additionally under one of the Creative Commons licenses, see the individual exercises for more details.

The documentation is released under a CC-BY-SA: either version 4 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Some images were taken from Wikipedia, see the SOURCES file in their respective folders for more details.