setup.md

Building and running the application locally

To build this backend follow the following

1. Clone this repository by running git clone git@github.com:cambiatus/backend.git
2. Change directory into the new repository by cd backend
3. Install dependencies by running mix deps.get
4. Create a database by running mix ecto.create you may need to change the values in config/test.exs and config/dev.es for this to work. Specifically the database user and password
5. Run the current database migrations using mix ecto.migrate
6. Run tests by running the test command as mix test ideally this should exit with a status of 0
7. Run the server using mix phx.server

#Boom! and you can now hack away!

TODO

• implement git hooks for contributors to ensure stability