The website for the American Gut Project participant portal

First install Postgres.app. Make sure that the path is configured properly so add the following to your .profile file:

export PATH=$PATH:/Applications/Postgres.app/Contents/Versions/9.4/bin

Next install Redis. To install via Homebrew do:

brew install redis

Now setup an virtual environment via virtualenv:

mkvirtualenv amgut
workon amgut

Now install all of the dependencies. This will also install dependencies included in extras_require:

pip install -e .[test]

And copy over the configuration file:

cp ag_config.txt.example amgut/ag_config.txt

To configure some of the configurations. Namely, make sure to fill in entries for DATABASE.

To enable uuid v4 function in postgres:

echo 'CREATE EXTENSION "uuid-ossp";' | psql

Make sure that all of your permissions are set correctly. See ALTER USER.

Finally run the tests to populate the databases and launch the website:

./scripts/ag make test
python amgut/webserver.py