diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index bf22e3e..9f4fe8a 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -3,4 +3,11 @@ Charting Library Save/Load Backend This is the tiny backend implementing Charting Library charts storage. -**How-to manual is going to be here soon** + +1. Install Python 3.x and Pip. Use virtual environment if your host has older python version and it cant be upgraded. +2. Install PostgreSQL or some other Django-friendly database engine. Also you might want to install PgAdmin or any other administrative tool for your database. +3. Go to you charts storage folder and run `pip install -r requirements.txt`. Unix users : you have to have python-dev package to install `psycopg2`. +4. Create an empty database in Postgres (using either command line or `pgadmin`). Go to `charting_library_charts` folder and set up your database connection in `settings.py` (see `DATABASES` @ line #12). +5. Run `python manage.py migrate`. This will create database schema without any data. +6. Run `python manage.py runserver` to run *TEST* instance of your database. Use some other stuff (i.e., Gunicorn) for your production environment. +