MovieWagerApi

What you need:

The first step is installing Elixir which you can do by following instructions on the Elixir Website

You will also need Postgres -- which can be installed with homebrew: brew install postgresql.

Setting up your credentials

Copy the dev.secret.example.exs to dev.secret.exs file and uncomment out the block of code. Enter in your postgres credentials:

config :movie_wager_api, MovieWagerApi.Repo,
  username: "your_username",
  password: "your_password"

Similarly, you will want to follow the same steps for test.secret.example.exs. The secret files are not checked into source control, so don't worry about your credentials being shared.

Setting up Twitter Authentication

The dev.secret.exs and test.secret.exs files also include information for the twitter OAuth API.

config :extwitter, :oauth, [
   consumer_key: "your_consumer_key",
   consumer_secret: "your_consumer_secret",
   access_token: "your_access_token",
   access_token_secret: "your_access_token_secret"
]

Setting up the app

To get everything running quickly, I set up a setup script. Simply run bin/setup from the root directory of this repo and that should get you into a work state.

Note: This script clears the database and gets you to a clean state. All data you may have will be lost.

Starting the app

To start your Phoenix app:

Install dependencies with mix deps.get (handled through bin/setup)
Create and migrate your database with mix ecto.create && mix ecto.migrate (handled through bin/setup)
Start Phoenix endpoint with mix phoenix.server

Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser.

If you get errors regarding connecting to your database, you may need to start postgres manually:

pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log start

Ready to run in production? Please check our deployment guides.