Liberapay is a recurrent donations platform, forked from Gratipay.

Firstly, make sure you have the following dependencies installed:

• python 2.7
• virtualenv
• postgresql
• make

Then run:

make env

Now you'll need to create two postgres databases, here's the simplest way of doing it:

sudo -u postgres createuser --superuser $USER
createdb liberapay
createdb liberapay_tests

Then you can set up the DB:

make schema

Environment variables are used for configuration, the default values are in defaults.env and tests/test.env. You can override them in local.env and tests/local.env respectively.

Once you've installed everything and set up the database, you can run the app:

make run

It should now be accessible at http://localhost:8339/.

You can create some fake users to make it look more like the real site:

make data

The DB schema is in sql/schema.sql, but don't modify that file directly, instead put the changes in sql/branch.sql. During deployment that script will be run on the production DB and the changes will be merged into sql/schema.sql.

That process is semi-automated by release.sh.

The easiest way to run the test suite is:

make test

That recreates the test DB's schema and runs all the tests. To speed things up you can also use the following commands:

• make pytest only runs the python tests without recreating the test DB
• make pytest-re does the same but only runs the tests that failed in the previous run

If there is something you can't seem to figure out by yourself, come ask us in the IRC channel #liberapay on Freenode.

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