Are we fast?

Install PostgreSQL via homebrew:

brew install postgresql
ln -sfv /usr/local/opt/postgresql/*.plist ~/Library/LaunchAgents
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist
initdb /usr/local/var/postgres

If you run into problems initalising the database, you may need to do this:

rm -rf /usr/local/var/postgres

If you don't already have virtualenv installed, do that now:

curl -s https://raw.github.com/brainsik/virtualenv-burrito/master/virtualenv-burrito.sh | $SHELL

Open a new shell to test it out. You should have the workon and mkvirtualenv commands.

Create a new virtual environment for this project:

mkvirtualenv arewefast --distribute --python=python2.7

This just created a clean environment named "arewefast" using Python 2.7. You can get out of the environment by restarting your shell or calling deactivate.

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virtualenvwrapper lets you run hooks when creating, activating, and deleting virtual environments. These hooks can change settings, the shell environment, or anything else you want to do from a shell script.

Install:

pip install virtualenvwrapper

If you don't already have pip installed, do that now:

sudo easy_install pip

If you do have pip installed, make sure you have an up-to-date version installed:

pip install --upgrade pip

First change to the arewefast directory in the project root:

cd arewefast

From inside your activated virtual environment, install the required Python packages:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Set up PostgreSQL database:

createdb arewfast
python manage.py db init
python manage.py db migrate

If you use autoenv, this is a good start for your .env:

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export APP_SETTINGS='config.DevelopmentConfig'
export DATABASE_URI='postgresql://localhost/arewefast'

Otherwise, you'll want to set the aforementioned environment variables when you run python manage.py and python app.py.

Run the development server:

python app.py

When you have made changes to the models, create a migration to update the database schema:

python manage.py db migrate

Then run the migration:

python manage.py db upgrade

Poke around the database:

psql arewefast

View the database tables:

\dt

Run tests:

make test