Reformed Academy is a free and open learning experience. Reformed Academy is a project of Reformed Forum, a 501(c)(3) organization.

Reformed Academy is licensed under GPLv3. You are free to modify the source code and use it in your own project, however you must also adopt GPLv3. Reformed Academy is a free and open learning experience, and we believe the software should coincide with these values.

NOTICE: ALL COURSE CONTENT ON THE REFORMED ACADEMY WEBSITE AND THE REFORMED ACADEMY LOGO ARE PROPERTY OF REFORMED FORUM AND DO NOT FALL UNDER GPLV3. THE REFORMED ACADEMY LOGO MUST BE REPLACED WHEN DISTRIBUTING REFORMED ACADEMY.

The following directions are specfic to Mac OSX. If you would like to contribute by providing instructions for other platforms, it would be greatly appreciated!

git clone --recursive git@github.com:reformedforum/reformedacademy.git

###Install Homebrew

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)”

###Make sure Homebrew is configured properly

brew doctor

Fix any errors if need be.

###Install Python and MySQL (if necessary)

brew install python
brew install mysql

###Create a MySQL database 'academy'

For a fresh MySQL install run the commands below. Otherwise ignore the commands below and just create an 'academy' database.

mysql.server start

If MySQL doesn't start for you, give this a try: http://stackoverflow.com/a/11061487

mysql -u root
mysql> create database academy;
mysql> quit

###Modify the local_settings file to work with your MySQL installation

cd /path/to/project/directory
mv reformedacademy/local_settings.py.example reformedacademy/local_settings.py

Updated local_settings.py.

###Create and activate a virtual environment

pip install virtualenv
virtualenv .venv
. .venv/bin/activate

###Install project dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

###Sync the database

./local.sh migrate

###Run the local web server

./local.sh runserver

###Post installation instructions

After everything is set up, all that needs to be done is run runserver.sh

cd /path/to/project/directory
./local.sh runserver

If there are database changes after you pull the latest from the repo you'll have to perform a database migration.

./manage.py migrate --settings=reformedacademy.local_settings

If you make a model change, be sure to run the commands below, otherwise production will not be updated.

./manage.py makemigrations --settings=reformedacademy.local_settings
./manage.py migrate --settings=reformedacademy.local_settings

• local.sh - Runs manage.py commands using local settings. (e.g. ./local.sh runserver