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Add database setup instructions #75

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jmcarp opened this issue Feb 19, 2017 · 4 comments
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Add database setup instructions #75

jmcarp opened this issue Feb 19, 2017 · 4 comments
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@jmcarp
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jmcarp commented Feb 19, 2017

The docs should include or link to instructions for running the database locally--something like

  • Install postgres
  • Install postgis
  • Create pupa database user
  • Create opencivicdata db
  • Run dbinit

Adding docker instructions would be neat too!

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I have very minimal instructions in another project which could be expanded into these docs: https://github.com/opencivicdata/scrapers-ca/#usage

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fgregg commented Feb 20, 2017

yeah, I have basically the same https://github.com/opencivicdata/scrapers-us-municipal#initialization

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@jmcarp On which page of the docs do you think it would make sense to add this content?

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jmcarp commented Feb 26, 2017

How about as a sibling to http://docs.opencivicdata.org/en/latest/scrape/run_scraper.html ? Then, instead of the oblique reference to the database ( if don’t have an opencivicdata postgres database set up ), that page can say something like:

To store scraped data in a database, run (link to database setup). Otherwise, if don’t have an opencivicdata postgres database set up, ...

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