Development

The following installation instructions are for Ubuntu.

1. Install dependencies if they are not already installed. (for platforms other than Ubuntu, follow the installation instructions):

   $ sudo apt-get install git python-pip python-dev postgresql postgresql-server-dev-all
   

2. Clone or download the CAQE repository from Github: http://github.com/mcartwright/CAQE , e.g.

   $ git clone https://github.com/mcartwright/CAQE.git
   $ cd CAQE
   

3. (optional) Install virtualenv (if not installed already) and create a caqe virtual environment

   $ sudo pip install virtualenv
   $ virtualenv ~/Envs/caqe
   $ source ~/Envs/caqe/bin/activate
   

4. Install the python module dependencies in requirements.txt using pip.:

   $ pip install -r requirements.txt
   

5. Configure testing variables as described in Test Configurations.

6. Set APP_MODE to DEVELOPMENT:

   $ export APP_MODE=DEVELOPMENT
   

7. Generate secret_keys.py (don’t check this file into source control):

   $ cd src
   $ python generate_key_file.py
   

8. Create the database:

   $ python create_db.py
   

9. Add 0.0.0.0     caqe.local to a new line in your /etc/hosts file.

10. Start the development server:

    $ python run.py
    

11. Go to http://caqe.local:5000/mturk_debug to test the configuration.

12. Stop the server with ctrl-c.